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by cardine 3159 days ago
That is not even remotely true. Anyone who can afford a software developer can afford an immigration attorney to handle applying for an H1B.

Plus it usually takes 2-3 years to know if someone isn't going to get the H1B lottery during their OPT which is a longer time horizon than most startups are concerned with anyways.

I think most startups simply hire who they view as the most qualified person regardless of immigration status.

Source: Have a startup that hires software developers.
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praneshp 3159 days ago
> That is not even remotely true. Anyone who can afford a software developer can afford an immigration attorney to handle applying for an H1B.

The problem with using sweeping statements like "anyone who can..." is that one example is enough to disprove you. There'll be Who's Hiring thread in a couple of days, watch how many young startups say no new H1Bs on that.

Your OPT case is only true when hiring a student on F1

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cardine 3159 days ago
> The problem with using sweeping statements like "anyone who can..." is that one example is enough to disprove you. There'll be Who's Hiring thread in a couple of days, watch how many young startups say no new H1Bs on that.

We don't have to wait - we can look at the one from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15384262

I did a Ctrl+F and nothing came up for "H1B" and the only thing that came up for "citizen" was a job posting for the US government itself.

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praneshp 3159 days ago
Did you keep clicking on see more and get the entire page? Give me an hour or so, I'll find you a few links when I'm off the Caltrain.

Edit: I had to get to page3, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15391862

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15386201

(Though I believe the second one is some team specific thing, I know that at least AWS sponsor H1Bs for fresh grads).

Then on p5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15384311

(I was confident about this because I was job hunting about a year ago, and was exclusively looking at companies under 50 people. Most of them were fine with H1B transfer, but explicitly said no new applications.)

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