[a3n]

The whole thing is based on unrealistic expectations. People work somewhere in the Bay Area, or launch a startup there; it's one of the most expensive areas in the country, maybe the world. Then they don't want to pay enough so that there is no shortage of employees.

So then the talk turns to bringing in H1Bs who will work for the low end of the "prevailing" (Ha!) salary.

Why don't these companies cut to the chase and just open an office in India? Or have the entire operation there?

Or are some of them actually not trying to change the world by delivering better toast to your door, and they just want to live in the Bay Area?

[ryanSrich]

It's a form of off shoring. They create a fake shortage, lobby for more H1Bs, pay the national average for fair market, which is laughably low for the Bay Area, and there you have it. The tech shortage sponsored by Facebook...