<story><title>Uber receives more foreign-worker visas as it lays off hundreds of employees</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/17/h-1b-uber-snatches-up-more-foreign-worker-visas-as-it-lays-off-hundreds-of-employees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taurath</author><text>Something that is bugging me about my company - we have a hard time hiring people, because we’re almost but not quite competitive on pay. And we see H1B notices go up in the boardroom. I can’t help but think if we were better competitive on pay we would not have a problem hiring - were not doing the most complicated thing in the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CydeWeys</author><text>My previous company had this triple threat of compensation problems going on: (1) Didn&amp;#x27;t offer high enough pay, (2) Got burned badly when they did try to offer higher pay to get senior engineers because they weren&amp;#x27;t good at identifying top talent anyway (I repeatedly complained and tried to fix this but no one cared), and (3) Was not in an amazingly profitable industry anyway, so they were never going to be able to come close to FANG salaries regardless.&lt;p&gt;It was sad to see the slow&amp;#x2F;inevitable march of good engineer being hired essentially by accident (the hiring process didn&amp;#x27;t recognize them as such and didn&amp;#x27;t tend to offer them more) and then leaving to greener pastures when they weren&amp;#x27;t being rewarded properly.  When I left, they offered me a near 50% raise as retention offer (why weren&amp;#x27;t they paying me that already since I was clearly worth it?!), but despite that being a director title, it still couldn&amp;#x27;t touch the SWE offer at Google ... so here I am.&lt;p&gt;The biggest overarching problem I would say with most businesses like that is they aren&amp;#x27;t profitable enough, and engineers can&amp;#x27;t produce enough value in those companies, to justify really top-tier compensation like what would be necessary to get and retain top talent engineers long-term.</text></comment>
<story><title>Uber receives more foreign-worker visas as it lays off hundreds of employees</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/17/h-1b-uber-snatches-up-more-foreign-worker-visas-as-it-lays-off-hundreds-of-employees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taurath</author><text>Something that is bugging me about my company - we have a hard time hiring people, because we’re almost but not quite competitive on pay. And we see H1B notices go up in the boardroom. I can’t help but think if we were better competitive on pay we would not have a problem hiring - were not doing the most complicated thing in the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dx87</author><text>Same thing where I work.  The last H1B notice I saw was for a junior web developer.  It&amp;#x27;s pretty simple work, but the pay wasn&amp;#x27;t any better than what you&amp;#x27;d get taking a government job that requires similar experience.  The work is remote as well, so there&amp;#x27;s no excuse for not being able to find a junior web developer in the entire country.</text></comment>