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Got a random email from a supposed Amazon recruiter for a SDE position (which is not at all a fit). The email is amazon.com domain and there are no red flags in the body but it doesn't feel like an Amazon recruiter due to the tacky signature, etc. Has anyone seen this kind of cold-calling from FAANG recruiter?
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Well you are at Slalom…
You’re a bitter man, A1.
The "we need the best and brightest because Americans can't do these jobs" narrative exists to manufacture consent for this: https://youtu.be/TCbFEgFajGU
It's not true, but it's what companies need you to believe so they can get a large number of foreign workers that have less labor rights and lower salaries than local workers
At least in CA, if you’re on a visa, your salary is public (by law, it is literally posted in our break room by title!!) so it is much harder to get away with this kind of exploitation.
I think there may be a real need in Big Tech honestly.
You’re probably not on the projects where we staff high performers 🙃
Instead of posting anonymously, share your name and go toe-to-toe with some of our colleagues here on visas.
The best 3 managers I’ve had at 2 different companies were H1B visa holders. They didn’t get paid less but they worked much harder and were deeply invested in the team’s learning and development
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Why do YOU need to see them? Are you going to vet them?
While I don’t think I’ve seen necessarily better than the best and brightest who are local, I love having multicultural people in my office. I’ve learned a ton from them and about their culture just sitting around the lunch table. Makes for a richer, idea-diverse, environment. It’s crazy to me that people are coming after such a small sliver of the workforce population (even after accounting for “white collar” type job, they are a minority). If we want more jobs and better pay, go after the companies and their profit-seeking behavior that is corrupted to the Nth degree (studies show corporate behavior has gotten much worse in the last 30-40 years given incentive packages for C-suite and stockholder culture). Stop blaming and hurting the immigrant, the frontline folks. Laser focus to the right drivers and we can find the actual root cause of the pain.
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The BS from IIT and PhD from Stanford AI Researcher H1B is like 1% of H1Bs. Probably 80% of H1Bs are Diploma Mill grads specializing in mundane stuff like Python, SQL, front end dev, databases, etc.
Not at Slalom?
Before we start having this conversation, we should consider companies can also move the task offshore. Companies like IBM have been doing that for years.
This article is inline with what I was thinking. However the article points out that it would be a struggle