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So does that mean that the pajeetification is primarily using citizens or family visas? or is 85k/year enough to do it?
IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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A single H1B Visa holder is somehow able to bring in a spouse, maternal grandparents, paternal grandparents, cousins and their families.
I do not know how they do this exactly but I have multiple examples of this on my street in Austin. An H1B spouse is also able to work despite not holding a H1B visa on their own.
I do not know how they do this exactly but I have multiple examples of this on my street in Austin. An H1B spouse is also able to work despite not holding a H1B visa on their own.
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Both need to be addressed. H1bs effectively cap out salaries for those professions at 85k. Notice how wages have stagnated over the past 30 years since h1bs started being a thing? That absolutely needs to be fixed.So about H1B visas. They are capped at 65k per year with another 20k for individuals with graduate degrees. It's a rolling 65k as they are good for 3 years and can be extended for another 3 years beyond that.
Now compare that to:
U.S. Tech Jobs Outsourced Overseas as AI, Cost Pressure Reshape Workforce | Economy Media
U.S. tech firms outsourced 3.4 million jobs in 2024, driven by cost savings, automation, and global labor pools, deepening job insecurity and reshaping workforce strategies.www.economy-media.com
People need to stop focusing on the H1B visas for foreigners who are at least in this country and spending at least some of that income here and paying taxes here.
And start taxing any US based company an additional amount based on what % of their workforce aren't US citizens. Just make it a straight +%. Your company has 25% of its workforce in pooland? Grats on the additional 25% tax on all revenue.
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That is generally a hard concept to get through to people. The possibility of a $85k pajeet working your job means that you now have to bargain with an employer in a way that the pajeet does not look more appearling. Leading to you taking a lower salary in most cases. This is the race to the bottom generated by the mere existence of H1Bs in the economy and they increase every year.
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ROFLMAO. This is never going to happen. I remember my Dad bitching about this 30+ years ago in the construction industry.
Big business is directly in the hands of politicians and businesses love cheap labor.
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I think you mean politicians are directly in the hands of big business? That I am aware of. I am on team
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I had a watershed moment using 3 different MCPs within Cursor AI. I had two tasks that were 5 story points. A year ago these two tasks would have taken me 1.5 days or so of heads down programming. So realistically like 5 days because of meetings that waste my time. With 3 MCPs and a Cursor chat? 45 minutes total.
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Wages have stagnated over the past 30 years?
Are we still in the IT/Software careers thread?
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I think software engineer salaries will continue to rise. Unless everything goes to India...
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Kithani
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Just wait til we get President Bootygig, I'm sure a McKinsey consultant would never support outsourcing!
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Our application is an ancient ASP.NET WebForms app. I had to create a fairly complex UI for device configuration. Nothing difficult coding wise, but lots of boiler plate code and translating XML element names into properties then using them as binding into the markup. Again, nothing difficult, but very tedious and time consuming. Personally, I prefer using the browser versus IDE tooling. Anyway, blasted that task out in a day which would've easily been 2-3x that.
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The level of clownshow that my wife's work has become is impressive. She is in the final rounds of interviews for someplace else but it's just amazing. It has been 18 months since an Indian VP was brought onboard for the manufacturing engineering part of the company.
He immediately fired several long term directors and replaced them with Indians. He then brought a massive amount of IBM pajeet contractors onboard to "fill necessary gaps." Then he fired several long term principal engineers who were primarily responsible for the state of affairs in the past 8 years. Whatever their faults the manufacturing systems did work and they brought several more factories online with the solutions they provided. They were replaced with IBM contractors. My wife's team had their production access pulled and were removed from all of the main engineering efforts. Those all went to IBM contractors (lol).
In typical fashion the IBM contractors are quick to take credit and even quicker to throw blame on everyone but themselves. Last week they deployed something to production that brought one of the factories down. Factory is still down and they cannot make anything right now. Their main strategy has been to blame the FTEs of course even though the FTE engineers all expressed concerns about the efficacy of what they were doing the whole time.
Pajeet VP is supporting the contractors over the FTEs and trying to wiggle out of the situation. As they all do.
It's all so tiresome.
He immediately fired several long term directors and replaced them with Indians. He then brought a massive amount of IBM pajeet contractors onboard to "fill necessary gaps." Then he fired several long term principal engineers who were primarily responsible for the state of affairs in the past 8 years. Whatever their faults the manufacturing systems did work and they brought several more factories online with the solutions they provided. They were replaced with IBM contractors. My wife's team had their production access pulled and were removed from all of the main engineering efforts. Those all went to IBM contractors (lol).
In typical fashion the IBM contractors are quick to take credit and even quicker to throw blame on everyone but themselves. Last week they deployed something to production that brought one of the factories down. Factory is still down and they cannot make anything right now. Their main strategy has been to blame the FTEs of course even though the FTE engineers all expressed concerns about the efficacy of what they were doing the whole time.
Pajeet VP is supporting the contractors over the FTEs and trying to wiggle out of the situation. As they all do.
It's all so tiresome.
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I don't know all of the details but from what I have gathered the whole thing is classic. As this is a factory that cost millions to build and propietary technology that took a decade to design and implement it has a variety of simulation gates that any updates must pass before being used on the live machinery. There are also a number of labs with test machines to run stuff on.
They were way behind schedule on whatever this project was and their solution kept failing various simulations and in the lab. Their solution? Simply change the validations on the sims so their code made it through!
They were way behind schedule on whatever this project was and their solution kept failing various simulations and in the lab. Their solution? Simply change the validations on the sims so their code made it through!
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