> Dual Intent: The H-1B visa type carries “dual intent” which means that the holder may intend to return to his/her home country or intend to immigrate to the United States.
However, it does fall under the broad category of temporary work visa, which is possibly why people wrongly assume it’s a “contract” visa.
I tried that. It didn’t work out for me. Politics, organizational instability, bad executives and a never stopping pager are all insufferable. It kills the very thing, the entirety of joie de vivre that is the main reason for making money.
Now choosing job is a multi-variable analysis for me. I pay more attention to the executives.
Mainly Blind, LinkedIn and searching. After an offer is made and if you’re taking time to decide, recruiters often sets up a meeting with an executive to talk to you.
Pittsburgh, PA has plenty of houses under 100k. Here’s one that’s less than 250 miles away from you. Although this particular one is not a countryside house [1].
> Google's revenues were flat last year but costs were up.
Wrong. Google made 181.69 billion in 2020, 256.74B in 2021 [1] and 283B in 2022 [2]. A 10% YoY increase [2] is better than most of the years they have been public. They possibly made more money in last 2.5 years than all the years they have been public combined.
> Are you saying most employees would prefer losing their job or living without job security over a pay cut with job security?
Pay cuts don’t come with job security. You can get laid off after a pay cut as easily as without one.
Employees prefer not having their pay cut. The ones that are dismissed aren’t employees any more, so from the narrow perspective of the organization dismissing them, their morale doesn’t matter. Pay cuts impact the morale of the people still working more than lay offs do.
Now, where pay cuts – especially explicitly and enforceably temporary ones – come with some real measure of job security as a way of avoiding layoffs, that can be different, but that usually only happens where there is a specific contractual arrangement, usually via a preexisting union and labor-management negotiation (and even there its tricky, especially in the private sector, because firm guarantees are hard.)
> I thought health insurance puts a cap on how much you can get charged.
Instead of annual out-of-pocket maximums that are mandatory under the ACA and make that unlikely, plans used to have kind of the reverse: lifetime coverage caps that particularly severe conditions could exceed. (This is one of the reasons premiums are higher for superficially similar—e.g., what services are covered and at what cost sharing rule befoee reaching caps—coverage under the ACA.)
I can't see how it can happen post-ACA, unless the condition as a practical matter requires services that are entirely outside the scope of coverage.
Says that they have a $6 billion stake. Google's market cap is 211x that. If I owned 0.47% of a startup company, would they even take my phone call to listen to my "opinion" on any matter? Something doesn't add up here. Or perhaps this theory is correct, a company that owns 0.47% of Google gets to call the shots. Really makes you think twice about taking investment money.
> Also, if there was any interesting work, if you weren't some sort of political beast or very assertive, somebody would just steal it from you before you could do it anyways.
> Dual Intent: The H-1B visa type carries “dual intent” which means that the holder may intend to return to his/her home country or intend to immigrate to the United States.
However, it does fall under the broad category of temporary work visa, which is possibly why people wrongly assume it’s a “contract” visa.
[1] https://isso.ucsf.edu/immigration-visas/h-1b-scholars