• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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Part of the industry is in a recession but there are still startups hiring like crazy. Fundraising is below peak but there is still money out there for ideas. I’ve been in leadership and funding of 6 tech startups, and never have I paid less than the prevailing wage for H1B’s. It’s illegal and your H1B applications just won’t get approved. Offshored engineers cost 1/3 to 1/2 of US based engineers. Quality is worse and causes the need for additional iteration and rewrites by smart US engineers.

The bottom line is that our schools decreased in the amount of good engineers and product people coming out relative to need. I would much rather have the intelligent H1B’s here than the dregs of the earth brought in by Biden.
AI will replace the engineers.
 
^^wonder who^^



 

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