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by baskire 2137 days ago
There’s no skills shortage. Just an unwillingness to take a risk on someone outside the normal profile.

I’ve done interviews where we passed on a candidate who’d be educated and onboarded within 1.5 years. Except nobody wanted to take that risk as we’d rather hire the person who can start today.

If there was no h1b program, we’d of hired that American and trained them.

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And as soon as that person got trained, they would jump ship.