ishan_dikshit
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I try to keep learning.
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Comment · 3 years ago
Hey Peter, I want to learn more about the H1B program, why it is broken, and the bottlenecks and incentives for fixing it. Is there a resource you recommend? Something to ramp up on this corner of immigration policy?
Thanks for doing this! Apologies for the generic question
Comment · 6 years ago
Thank you - I appreciate it. Some people on another forum actually informed me of the fact that other educational boards in the UK are planning on adopting this exact same 'model based assessment methodology'. I do not understand why more people aren't upset about this.
Comment · 9 years ago
I think everyone here is ignoring a very important statistic within the article: "data shows that 25 percent of high tech companies founded between 1995 and 2005 have at least one immigrant founder". Would you rather have these companies be based out of Asia entirely?
Also see: https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2016/03/17/study-immigrants-fou...
I was recently speaking with Demis Hassabis and he recommended looking for startup funding in California but continuing to work out of London. More and more companies are gravitating towards this general template (not London specifically). Would you rather have some low level Stack Developer working at Airbnb on an H1B build the next Billion dollar startup in the Bay Area or out of Bangalore?
Yes, hiring someone with an H1B might cost a company 10k less per annum. But what would it cost America to not have these foreign workers want to work in California altogether? Besides, it isn't fair to build such an impressive hotbed of thought and progress and then try and wall others out of it.