Come to think of it, I know of a lot of great engineers that didn’t come from Ivy league schools. A lot of them went to lesser well known engineering schools. But they went their because they were top of the class in Asia and India, and the respective U.S. colleges ended up giving them a full scholarship to their masters of engineering /computer science degrees here in the U.S. And when we did interview them, obviously the were really intelligent. That’s why we hired them fresh out of school years back at Qualcomm and the company got them an H1-B. A lot of them weren’t able to move and eventually got their greencards, but they did get to enjoy an effective 16:1 stock split from then until now.
Funny how that works…Sometimes it’s great to only have one kind of options (pun intended).
I don’t think those folks any any folks in their situation would have been complaining about any sort of “low / depressed salary” now. I guess a lot of non-H1-B’s probably didn’t want to take the job because they thought the pay might have been lower than elsewhere in SoCal. Big financial mistake. Huge!
