CodeSheikh

Either get rid of the patent system altogether. All innovations eventually do good to the mankind. Or we need to form a patent review committee primarily composed of people with great track records. Pick professors, company leaders (like Elon Musk, political leaders, graduate students and average consumers. This committee should be tasked to review all of the patents and purge the ones that are too generic in nature. Reduce the patent age from 100 years to a decade. Change this committee every year and their doings should be VERY transparent. A public facing website where they publish their reviews.

It was like a mobile phones orchestra. Amazeballs.

In this scenario it was candidate responsibility to make sure she/he has all of the necessary skills before they press the submit button.

Details are just details. It all depends on how you interpret and perceive them :-)

Yup..after re-reading my comment this tiny nitpick: "buddy, you're out of market." was a bit condescending on my part. Apologies.

We had recently interviewed a female candidate for a Lead engineering role at our company. What impressed us about her resume was that she was mentioned as co-inventor in at least 11 patents while working for IBM, various SW "Architecture" projects yada yada. During the interview she could not explain the basics of database queries processing before we could even asked her how to write a simple statement that prints out the dupes.

The thing is we (as I address to most of the HM community which I am assuming is tech/IT related) work in a very lucrative yet highly dangerous field. If you don not keep up with ongoing technologies and have failed to update your skills even in a time frame of 6-12 months, buddy youre outta market.

Companies like IBM, HP/Compaq, Dell, Oil firms, Networking companies have this culture (btw i have had experienced it first handed) where they promote their engineers to lead roles so early on and have them do all of the Project Management tasks and in the midst of everything, years pass by and they are left with obsolete technical skills and 20 years of work experience. I wish things were not like this.

Pilots?! Where are the aircrafts?

btw..why on the earth this article is on HN?! Are people comparing tech worker salaries as an ideal model for the entire economic class? I am confused by the upvoters here.

Min wage should be increased by certain significant percentage but definitely not by 100% to $15. That is basically saying "no need to study in high school or go to college because you can still make around 30k based on min wage". 30k is a starting salary for a lot of college fresh graduates. This could in-return can also create economic imbalance among classes (abridging the gap between high school drop out and fresh college graduate)

AdBlock has become evil by introducing this "whitelist" thing. I wonder who seeded them in recent past...

This was not intended to be the entire solution but a great starting point (more than that) for someone (cough backend devs cough) who has been having issues with CSS centering.

I see your point here, and it is valid -- to some extent.

Yes, the "Indian" consultancies have been exploiting this system for ages and US Govt has been trying its best for past three years to not grant visas if USCIS can not establish Employer-Employee relationship. But still these consultancies always find loop holes.

I have come to this country as an immigrant as well. I went to an average university first in midwest and then transferred to a top 10 engineering school. I have seen "Americans" who can not do basic algebra in Calculus 1 classes. And I have studied/work with "Americans" who are at the top of their game. It is really subjective. Unfortunately, American media is exporting "Booty Culture" (think Kim K.) to the world rather than preaching about their rockstar scientists and engineers.

Because HN caters to tech audience and majority of the H1-B petitioners are tech workers. Get it?

In simple words, US Immigration system is quite messed up.

I understand the true benefits of hiring true talents for a true companies. Companies like Infosys, WiPro, Tata are sucking up resources and literally providing modern day pseudo-slave labor. Govt just need to either stop giving H1-Bs to these companies or give them a small percentage. These companies are killing the talent based immigration for everyone else.