Some companies do care about costs. They care more about the second part.
But it’s also silly to say FB doesn’t care about overhead when they made a big deal about paying workers less if they moved to a lower cost of living area.
I agree but everyone on HN regardless of whether they actually work in SV or not seems to be under the impression that every new grad working in tech are all pulling $500k right off the bat :)
I can only speak personally on termination of employment. When dealing with a low performance h1b employee, they were treated exactly like a regular employee and were given a low performance review. The company did stack ranked based year cuts so he knew he that he had a high change of getting cut with a below expectation performance review and a PIP and had 3 months to look for a job. Firing h1bs out of blue would make it hard to hire other h1bs. There maybe companies that abuse the situation, i have yet to see it. Most people aren't sociopaths and have empathy. Being a terrible leader/person makes it hard to do startups since talent won't follow you.
Yes most people probably can find a new job without being actually kicked out.
You still only have a little time to find a job. Just because you could find something fast doesn’t mean it’s not stressful, especially if you were fired for performance reasons.
But it’s also silly to say FB doesn’t care about overhead when they made a big deal about paying workers less if they moved to a lower cost of living area.