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Hiring cheap clueless “engineers” to do vibe coding…
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One of the biggest problems with H1-B abuse is that Indian managers will only hire from their own caste, creating large teams of engineers that discriminate against even other Indians, let alone other races.
If @elonmusk wants to let H1-B engineers compete for jobs based on competence, I’m fine with that. But there is ZERO reason that managers have to be H1-B.
If anything, if there is not a level playing field, it should be tilted in favor of US citizens. Currently it is completely biased towards foreign castes, primarily Indian (and Chinese in some segments of tech).
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Honestly if there’s anything that will get me to vote for someone other than Trump, it’s this H1-B issue.
All the doge stuff is great, but that doesn’t affect my livelihood as much as the H1-B takeover of the software industry.
I’ll happily live with USAID corruption if it means I’ll have a software engineering job to go to.
Trump and Elon need to realize that they can gain a lot of otherwise leftist votes if they take care of us properly.
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The middle tier consists of engineers with high talent but no experience, or less talented but lots of experience. It still requires more talent than the general population (computer science is peculiar and abstract and it’s not easy for the general population). I count myself in this tier. These are the implementers that build out the innovations designed by the top tier. This tier is vital to a company’s long-term success, because ideas need to be put into practice and operation to be useful to enough people to make money.
The bottom tier is little talent and little experience, or brand new graduates that might move up the tiers with a little experience. They’re doing the scut work that isn’t worth using the higher tiers to do.
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I believe that getting them to see the reality of this underbelly in their own companies will hopefully get them to do something that might cost them in the short term, but would be better for Americans in the long term, which is what they’re trying to do right now.
This is exactly the same problem as the open border. It’s just hidden and thus also just as destructive.
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All this is to point out that @elonmusk and @VivekGRamaswamy as the CEOs are of and only interact with the top tier. They don’t come into contact with the low-tier H1-B drones.
Those are hidden away behind layers of middle management whose incentive structure is based on cost over quality. They can lie and twist quality metrics into pretzels but can’t hide the costs, so what do you think happens?
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The problem is that new American grads with talent are now frozen out and will not be given the opportunity to work their way up the tiers.
Americans in the middle tier are being replaced and locked out of gaining the experience to move to the next tier. The money is now sent overseas and the long term success of the entire industry is compromised. It’s no longer merit based.
The same migration patterns ruining Europe and the US is happening in white collar industries, just without the blatant crime, but just as insidious.
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At the top tier and upper end of the middle tier, H1-Bs are paid the same as anyone else at that level. You’re hired based on what you can produce. H1-Bs here can leave and find another company willing to pay a high salary plus sponsor the visa because they’re that good.
As you move downward through the spectrum, the focus shifts to cost. Short sighted CEOs aim for short term cost savings and are willing to sacrifice long term technical stability. This is where the abuse is rampant.
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