Why would your company pay extra (full competitive salary plus H1B headache) to hire a foreigner? Do you honestly believe there were not any U.S citizens willing or capable of doing this work? I find that extremely hard to believe. I know this opens the whole immigration debate topic but frankly it doesn’t pass the smell test.[/quote]
News flash: look at some of the good engineering schools that churns out good masters students? What percentage of graduates are foreign students? If you think that’s a problem (I don’t), then why don’t you try to address that thing first.
And yes, because 4 of us did the actual hiring. We were looking for someone that ideally had already worked 2-3 years and was working on finishing their masters. Someone that had had embedded knowledge and someone that had dabbled in linux kernels, either for hobbies or personal interest, and someone that actually took the initiative to dabble in the then scrappy “Android operating system”….We didn’t want anymore senior people, because there were already 6 of us, and just getting all 6 of us senior people to agree on shit was challenging enough.
Starting salary at the time was $100k I believe, which in reality you could negotiate up. We ended up hiring 2 people that year plus one intern as a backup. One kid that didn’t have an H1-B and on that did. And we didn’t care if they had H1-B or not.
Anyway, engineering will never be the best paid profession, unless you are fortunate enough to work at a company that happens to hit it pretty big with an IPO or the like OR unless you invent/do something on your own. If you are so hell belt at thinking engineering is a lousy pay/lousy position, stop being an employee. My dad tried to teach me that and constantly asked me “are you sure, are you sure”
I’ve already hit my glass ceiling as an employee since I just turned the old fart 40, have no interest in trying to actively manage people, and really don’t want to spend the time and effort to go back and try to incubate new apps on my own as an independent with friends. As long as I can continue to directly report to my current director/vp and no one gets slotted between me and them, I just want to play at this point. Can’t really blame anyone else at this point, except myself…. Wish I bought more real estate when that was easier, though.
