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How any developer can be social?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Just watch above video.It's free. 
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So according to Scott we are all social?
But I'm offended he does not mention CP!!! And no place for comments to abuse him!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Yep,you're right.He didn't mention about CP. 
If you want you can TW him (@shanselman) 
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I saw your comment. Great +5 
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I became a developer so that I wouldn't have to be social! 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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The largest consumer of that Visa is Infosys, they consume almost 40% of the available cap for an year, and their average H-1B salary is 76K. Not high, but not peanuts either consider most first time visa employees are in their mid 20s. But for me, the really interesting bits were the salary averages for the big companies like Microsoft and Google. Microsoft's average H-1b pay is 113K, Google's is 126K, Oracle's 113, Amazon has 109K, Apple pays a nice 130K, Facebook 123K, and here's a surprise, Walmart pays 113K average. I know there's a big outcry about these big companies hiring foreign workers and people always say it's because they pay peanuts, but salaries upwards of 110-120K for people under 30 seems to be on the higher side of affairs as far as I can see. Bit of an eye opener here.
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The restricted nature of the visa rules pushes up salaries both of the existing pool and of those entering under that visa - this is also why Cuban cigars are so expensive 
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Only at the bigger companies. The outsourcing based consulting firms seem to get away with 60-70K pay.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: this is also why Cuban cigars are so expensive 
You don't think it has anything to do with their being illegal contraband, do you?
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They're not illegal in Ireland - just administratively complex to import.
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Only in the US. They're freely available in Canada.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: They're freely available in Canada.
Canada - land of freedom! 
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I think it's a matter of a different foreign policy rather than lack of freedom. IMHO the US and Canada share similar freedoms but have different policies on several key issues. And we also have a mayor who's very entertaining.
/ravi
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We had a crackhead mayor[^] back in the '90's. As usual Canada is coping America decades after the fact and then patting itself on the back for being so clever. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I remember Marion Barry - comeback kid! 
/ravi
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Back in real life, when I was a chemist, I was very offended at the existence of H-1B visas.
At that time, at least, it was used as a way to higher (=import) employees far below the market value of such credentials. Often so specific that it would be surprising if more than one person in the world could possibly fulfill them.
The technique the employers would use is put out a set of very specific requirements and accomplishment that, were a native/citizen capable of having would command a huge salary.
This artificial specificity was tailor made for a particular person they wanted to hire (perhaps a post-doc). The requirements that a US citizen be given first opportunity for the job was met - but in an obnoxious and cynical manner. So the letter of the law was met. The company got an indentured servant for an employee and a US citizen continued on their job search.
It's decades later, but this sore spot that will not easily heal.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Yeah, I hear where you are coming from. I've heard similar stories from others before. Today though, the choice is sometimes between outsourcing the job to a team that's offshore or bringing an H-1B worker over here. Often it's a combination, where the teams are offshore and their leads are onshore on H-1Bs.
That said, the focus of my thread is that companies like Microsoft, Facebook, and Google have good salaries and they do not pay lower salaries to H-1B employees. In their case, the visas are for genuine reasons.
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I didn't come in with an H-1B, but I had left the company and wanted to come back. I called one of my former bosses to see how this could work out and he said that they were in the middle of a big layoff and were required to offer any job openings to any qualified person on the layoff list (the operative word here is "qualified"). He wanted me to send him a complete detailed Resume that listed every thing that I had done for the company in the 15 years that I had worked for them (hardware development and software development) including my current qualifications (going back to GE/Honeywell, currently working on IBM). I sent him a detailed 6 page Resume and he wrote up an RFP that only one person in the whole world could fulfill. I got the job.
Dave.
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Nish Sivakumar wrote: 113K, Google's is 126K, Oracle's 113, Amazon has 109K, Apple pays a nice 130K, Facebook 123K, and here's a surprise, Walmart pays 113K average
This is a lot of money !! $110K are about €80K, this is middle management salary level in the area (Germany), or high management in France. What are these people doing ? Are the salaries that high in the US ? 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: This is a lot of money !! $110K are about €80K, this is middle management salary level in the area (Germany), or high management in France. What are these people doing ? Are the salaries that high in the US ?
No, these are some high-range salaries, specially for software engineers. That's why I felt they were eye opening, the stats. People complain about Microsoft and Google lowering salaries by bringing in cheap foreign labor, but it does not seem to be so.
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Well, by paying these people that much, they might have to lower others' people salaries
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I thought they did it by playing games with national borders and the tax men. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That's more than you'd get paid in most of the US; but is roughly in line with what top tech companies on the west coast are paying their native developers. Keep in mind that California is a stupidly expensive place to live. Very high taxes (by US standards anyway); and rent can easily be a few thousand dollars/month in the cities.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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