[cardine]

> 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.

[praneshp]

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.)