Why “visas” is being discussed
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Bad market for new grads is overdetermined. AI, interest rates, etc. But a contributing fact is flooding the tech market with H-1B visas spikes labor supply, kills workers' leve…
by cbb330 · Oct 8, 2026
>Cancelling visas or deporting them will not get American workers their jobs back. Source? If the job legitimately needs to be done, and the foreign option is eliminated, the do…
by panny · 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
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Visa most commonly refers to:Travel visa, a document allowing entry to a foreign country Work visa, a document granting permission to work in a foreign country Visa Inc., a US multinational financial and payment cards company Visa Debit card issued by the above company Visa Plus, an interbank network Visa Electron, a debit card Read more on Wikipedia