Why “sponsor” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Wages are absolutely lower and they can do that because you cannot switch employers. For example, the high street bank in my case sponsored H1B/L1B holders for Green Card s…
by cromka · Oct 8, 2026
The company I work at pays a similar distribution to the H1B salaries offered by Anthropic: https://www.levels.fyi/h1b/?q=anthropic . > I can guarantee you t…
by linkregister · Oct 8, 2026
What demonstrates that the market for programmers is not subject to the basic laws of supply and demand? I can guarantee you that there are enough US citizen/resident progr…
by wat10000 · Oct 8, 2026
me: observes something you: where's your evidence? If you need evidence, look at https://www.levels.fyi/h1b/?q=anthropic . Anthropic seems to need to sponsor…
by linkregister · Oct 8, 2026
It's demonstrably not. NVidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, Jane Street, the National Basketball League, Bridgewater, Apple, etc, all sponsor visas so they can recruit the best. Raising p…
by linkregister · Oct 8, 2026
This is of course true, but I see no way around it. Educating the people in developed countries about the realities in Africa is necessary too. And when it comes to the awarenes…
by codeforafrica · Oct 8, 2026
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