[bxji]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Facebook hires people under a generic role (Software Engineer) and then has them choose the team they will join after a “bootcamp” session. So they are not preallocated to a team to fulfill a specific need, and it’s not a direct 1 requisition to 1 person type system. I believe that’s what the above poster was referring to when they mentioned Facebook hiring to be general.

[Closi]

The purpose of the program seems to be to bring in workers where there is a specific need, so if it’s a generic role then that’s not helpful to their cause.

[dboreham]

Definitely not true. "Competent developer" is sufficiently specific. Role is just an instance of the class job.

[Closi]

What purpose do you need to hire that developer for?

[username90]

To build software so you can compete with other software companies? These big companies have large engineering offices overseas as well, if they can't hire in USA they'd just put these people there instead. They wouldn't start hiring less qualified Americans as many in this thread seems to believe.

[Closi]

“Building software to compete with other companies” wouldn’t be specific enough for me if I was the judge.

If you said to me “we are building a VR headset and there is a specific image technique we want to employ to correct for foveated lenses, and we want to bring in an image processing expert” then that would be different if I was the judge.

I’m not arguing what should be the case, I’m saying what I think the intent of the current law accommodates for.

[adamc]

Right. But the DOJ is saying you cannot use the law that way.