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Comment by Joky | Hacker News Reader

It tries to hurt the big outsourcing companies, but unless it manages to transfer (tens of) thousands of engineers each year they just won't notice it...

Also, very often a company needs someone qualified and found a particular candidate they want and tries to apply for him. I'm not sure how taking one of the many low qualified "engineer" coming with these outsourcing companies would fit the need here.

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We do full technical interviews with applicants and at this point, we have a pretty solid dataset on how to calibrate them and would be confident any engineers we're working with have the skills startups are looking for.

Our goal isn't to directly hurt the outsourcing companies, it's to help talented engineers find work they enjoy and not be held back by visa fears. Even doing that for a few people would be worthwhile.

I would not call low qualified engineers, by there is a lot of mismatch. For eg. more and more H1Bs look like App based like SAP, Oracle, Business Intelligence etc. kind of skills set. There are some Application General purpose programmers and far few System level programmers. H1-B (in Outsourcing shops) talent pool is not such a Gold mine when you take into account the kind of skill-set needed for start-ups. Its a needle in the hay-stack situation. But some companies and some talent may very well benefit from this but not at a scale that would change the dynamics.

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