On: Lessons learned from the recent job hunt

[ChuckNorris89]

This is way more common than you think and it seems like it's a tragedy of the commons.

Companies struggle to hire, yet have crazy demands and interview practices that filter out good candidates with potential, because they're looking for the 'perfect candidate', whatever that means to them.

From my experience, the whole shortage in this industry is mostly companies being too picky, because they're afraid of the small chance of letting in a less ideal candidate. And I'm not even talking about unicorns/FAANGs/big-tech, but regular companies.

[ushakov → ChuckNorris89]

yeah but we need to pretend there’s a shortage, so we can import cheap slave-like labour from third-world countries

[scarface74 → ushakov]

There is nothing “cheap” about how much companies pay most H1Bs compared to the average salary in the US.

Now the policies and regulations around how they are treated is a different story.