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Comment · 3 months ago
Do you have bad experiences with US workers, since you implicitly contrast them with immigrant ones?
Comment · 3 months ago
That answer does not make sense. Why would companies offshore if not having access to immigrant labour receiving the same pay as US labour?
Comment · 3 months ago
Silicon Valley industry grew big before major tech immigrant inflows. Also, you're assuming that US people can't do the jobs of visa people.
Comment · 3 months ago
That’s a whataboutism. The original question is why many US tech workers support open borders for tech labor when the supply increase primarily hits the wages and bargaining power of workers already here.
Comment · 3 months ago
That's not what I am asking. I want to know why US-born people in tech is/was so pro open border when it clearly does not benefit US labor. You don't get a lot of push-back from within tech against these hiring practices.
Comment · 7 months ago
My tier 2 US tech Bay Area office is 80% immigrants from one country on visa (H1-B or OPT). They never say no, and they are willing to work any hours and take meetings at any time. 90% of management up to CTO is from the same country. This is for tech, its a little less lopsided in non-tech divisions. Most of them used this pipeline (I've checked LinkedIn): 2 years of non-spectacular experience in home country, cheap US master, possibly internship in US company with same ethnic makeup, then OPT, then shoot for the H1-B in company with manager from same country.

American grads now compete with ethnic hiring, foreign work morals, and possibly billions of people with not-so-impressive experience, which I assume is why we see the crowding out of locals. Add to that some groups generally having less scruples about cheating and lying in the application process, as well as being trained in school for passing tests rather than performance, and you get what we see now.

Comment · 2 years ago
I'll do it all for money
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't need to read the "daily dead" on here
Comment · 3 years ago
Vladimir wants to paint a specific picture, dig?

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