Are you still looking?
Yeah, India and Pakistan provide a lot of hired guns. The firm I contract with uses all offshore teams. The have about 800 apps, and they are maintained by Indian teams. In fact, one of my wall clocks is set to India Time (IST) so I know when to call them if they are trying to avoid me.
Hey, thanks for asking. I am working now and not looking anymore.
Not true. Been in the industry for 35+ years. I know a lot of young engineers going to Amazon. People that have clearances, not purple haired! Trust me they are not settling for $10/hour!
The work life balance issues at Amazon engineering side are well publicized. It is hit or miss depending on what team you are on. As someone with ~26 ish years industry experience I still wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole and they can't afford me anyway. "I know a lot of young engineers going to Amazon" Sure. Like I said. They want them young and stupid so that can be churned through the stack rank nightmare and get em out before they vest. The purple hair sjw thing is what I have heard from colleagues that have been through the Bezos grinder. The pay is absolutely competitve now. Everyone has to be. Also this thread was pre covid. H1b is only an edge case in the market at the moment. That can change. All that matters is price to a lot of hiring managers and C staff. The minute Brandon can open the spigot he will. Can't have IT folks making competitive wages.
https://www.epi.org/publication/h-1b-visas-and-prevailing-wage-levels/ The prevailing wage rule constraint is a complete joke with little to no enforcement. Among things I've seen in my career - Sr H1B imports being paid $15 hr as "Senior Software Engineers" in New Jersey (Woodbridge). Now the H1b agency was billing the hourly equivalent of around $70K a year. This was the late 90s so still a good deal cheaper than prevailing rate at the time/location. The engineer was not seeing that. In this case the PM/Manager was also getting a cut as a kick back as a minority owner of the h1b firm but I won't go into that little bit of fraud. The CIO had an open file share with no password and another developer quickly found the salary budget. Good ol windows 95 days.
