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Written by April King on 2025-01-11 at 15:50

me: i’ve single-handedly written software used by tens of millions of people, you can see it right over at github.com/april

prospective employers: sorry, but unfortunately you did poorly in a high-stress 40-minute coding exercise, writing code with no time to think about how to solve a problem you’ve never seen before, in a terrible dev environment, while someone stares at you the whole time

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Written by Ministerofimpediments on 2025-01-11 at 16:10

@april “…that’s why we need H1b visas…it’s literally impossible to find real talent in the US…plus we can pay them half as much, they sleep under their desks, eat out of a food cart we have show up outside, don’t have to provide benefits or a 401k, and can simply throw them back when we’re done…ok…next slide…we have this new business space that is opening up…online puppy mills…we ship ‘em to people in a Chewey box…”

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Written by rain 🌦️ on 2025-01-15 at 23:25

@ministerofimpediments @april what's up with the random xenophobia? I spent a long time on an H1B visa, and I too have built highly-leveraged software

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Written by Ministerofimpediments on 2025-01-15 at 23:44

@rain @april there is no random xenophobia. Anything but. A lot of corporations (in the US) import workers they know they can underpay/take advantage of. Not all of them and not all fields, but it is certainly common enough practice to be a trope. Foreign workers should be paid the same. They shouldn’t work in fear of losing their visa. Corporations shouldn’t use those same workers as leverage to drive down salaries/benefits in fields that aren’t actually underserved.

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Written by Ministerofimpediments on 2025-01-15 at 23:56

@rain @april h1b specialist visas are used as a carrot and a stick. My comment was directed at the corporations and not the workers. (…the same as the whole mail order puppy mill quip…I’m anti puppy mill but very pro-puppy.)

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Written by rain 🌦️ on 2025-01-16 at 18:25

@ministerofimpediments @april ok, thanks for clarifying! your comment just pattern matched with a lot of xenophobic ones is all. Bernie was particularly atrocious: he straight up wants to destroy any market power visa workers might have by calling for them to be the last ones hired and the first ones fired

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