One area of twitter inflammation concerns H1-B visas. If immigrants arrived here and started competing with local workers, that would be one thing. However, these visas are supposed to be used when there aren’t enough local workers to compete.
In reality, employers are offering jobs to local workers at substandard rates. They can’t find g…
One area of twitter inflammation concerns H1-B visas. If immigrants arrived here and started competing with local workers, that would be one thing. However, these visas are supposed to be used when there aren’t enough local workers to compete.
In reality, employers are offering jobs to local workers at substandard rates. They can’t find good local workers who will accept those rates so they import workers who are delighted to accept them.
If it weren’t possible to import those workers, they would have to either hire substandard local workers or pay good local workers appropriate rates for their quality.
In reality, many (most?) of the imported workers are substandard relative to local workers, so substandard local workers who otherwise might have jobs aren’t getting them. Nor are good local workers getting jobs because the imported workers work for less.
How can this happen? Many hiring managers can’t tell the imported workers are also substandard OR they belong to the same nationality/culture and want to hire others of that culture. This is probably what is happening most of the time.
In my experience as a Silicon Valley worker and hiring manager, cutting costs is usually prioritized over hiring superstars. And, as with government jobs, you hire a couple of superstars or contractors to do all the work and still have a nice little empire. When Elon bought Twitter, he kept the superstars and fired the empire deadwood No one missed them.
"Many hiring managers can’t tell the imported workers are also substandard OR they belong to the same nationality/culture and want to hire others of that culture. "
That unfortunately matches much of my experience in corporate as well. Identifying the merit is an important part of a meritocracy, and that part is failing hard, leaving a lot of room for nepotism of one sort or another.
One area of twitter inflammation concerns H1-B visas. If immigrants arrived here and started competing with local workers, that would be one thing. However, these visas are supposed to be used when there aren’t enough local workers to compete.
In reality, employers are offering jobs to local workers at substandard rates. They can’t find good local workers who will accept those rates so they import workers who are delighted to accept them.
If it weren’t possible to import those workers, they would have to either hire substandard local workers or pay good local workers appropriate rates for their quality.
In reality, many (most?) of the imported workers are substandard relative to local workers, so substandard local workers who otherwise might have jobs aren’t getting them. Nor are good local workers getting jobs because the imported workers work for less.
How can this happen? Many hiring managers can’t tell the imported workers are also substandard OR they belong to the same nationality/culture and want to hire others of that culture. This is probably what is happening most of the time.
In my experience as a Silicon Valley worker and hiring manager, cutting costs is usually prioritized over hiring superstars. And, as with government jobs, you hire a couple of superstars or contractors to do all the work and still have a nice little empire. When Elon bought Twitter, he kept the superstars and fired the empire deadwood No one missed them.
"Many hiring managers can’t tell the imported workers are also substandard OR they belong to the same nationality/culture and want to hire others of that culture. "
That unfortunately matches much of my experience in corporate as well. Identifying the merit is an important part of a meritocracy, and that part is failing hard, leaving a lot of room for nepotism of one sort or another.