You’d get more qualified Americans applying if you offered more money.

linkregister an hour ago | parent | next [-]

We pay on par with the most in-demand employers in the San Francisco Bay Area, all who also hire people who require visa sponsorship. Anthropic hires many H1Bs and O-1s.

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wat10000 9 minutes ago | parent [-]

Good for you! What I said is still true.

	▲	linkregister 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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 pay for basketball players doesn't reward exclusion of global talent.

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matwood 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Except this doesn’t make sense if the argument is that there are a ton of unemployed CS people sitting around. The labor market is like any other market.

	▲	linkregister an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It makes perfect sense. I interview unemployed CS people all the time. Some excel at interviews and some don't. I was unemployed for many months myself. As an interviewer I don't see a strong correlation with unemployed status and ability to pass a rigorous software engineering interview.
	▲	wat10000 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The labor market is like any other market, which means there’s no such thing as a shortage, just supply and demand.