Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

H-1Bs are for people who have unique skills that aren’t present in the local population. When those people aren’t brought here, those jobs are sent there. Skilled immigration makes America more competitive, and creates more jobs as a conseuqnce than it takes

Yeah, as someone who dealt with H1Bs in a former operations role I can tell you for a fact that it's not worth the hassle, the lawyer's fees, and especially the uncertainty if you can find what you need in a current legal resident

You can justify a whole lot of hassle if an H1B will accept $50k less than a local in comp.

You do realize there’s a salary requirement that needs to be met for H-1B right?

Negligible for tech.

It's based on the median salary range for the specific role.

Not saying it *never* happens in tech, but it's not happening for $50k/year. The process itself might be $10-20k (with legal fees), plus HR time, then several months of processing and the real possibility of denial. At that caliber of employee big tech cos will try to hire both

In the best case they are still lowering market rates by flooding supply.