job in San Diego

Highly unlikely, in my experience. Salaries are flat, so therefore is demand.

Its trivial to get get a good Analog designer. Just offer the right money, and stop requesting a specific 1mm cube of Einstein's brain.

Kevin Aylward B.Sc.

And many of the RFQ's are rigged to H1-B applicants. ...Jim Thompson

Joe Mortgage Holder is receiving a gift. Because he did reckless gambling, lost, and now his gambling losses are cancelled.

Not in America. Not at all.

Then you can only pilfer from other companies. Upon which they will now have the same problem you had. It's a zero sum game.

Not for consulting jobs. H1-B visa holders cannot work as freelancers, their visa is tied to one particular employer.

What I mean is employers adhere to the letter of the law advertising for a position, but they already have an H1-B individual at-hand. ...Jim Thompson

Banks are responsible for informing the government if the interest paid to a person is over $10. Which pretty much eliminates the possibility of the account holder being able to cheat without being caught.

In most cases when the amount of income from sources other than wages is significant the account holder is required to make quarterly payments of estimated taxes.

Dan

Once again you don't know what you're talking about. Many of them work for placement agencies and can go through multiple employers for the duration of their visas.

Analog designers? We have a *lot* of H1Bs (the reqs say H1B) but none are hardware engineers. We do have contract hardware types but not many (10%, perhaps), compared to software types (more like 90%).

I disagree. Hint, I am someone that has actually applied to jobs in the USA :-)

Not at all. Analog designers are like like a condensate in physics. i.e. you add or take away from the pool and nothing changes.

There are a sufficient number of good individuals that won't be missed from the pool because most are doing the menial tasks easily done by the others in the pool.

As I said, it is a simple fact that salaries are not going up. If there is a *REAL*shortage of bread, then lines form a mile long outside the bakery, with people willing to pay $100 per loaf. That's what a shortage means.

Offer $300k p.a. and stop requesting insane requirements like 15 years in the specific job offered. Analog is volts and amps. If you know what you are doing, its simply irrelevant if its ADC, Charge pump, SMPS, mixers, portable devices, medical etc.

Kevin Aylward B.Sc.

On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 17:23:28 +0100, "Kevin Aylward" wrote: [snip]

Absolutely! _If_ you know what you are doing. But, as I recently remarked, I've run into a number of establishments where the only "tool" in their toolbox is an OpAmp :-(

Ignorance abounds! ...Jim Thompson

They don't send RFQ out for that. The law requires adequate advertising of the position in newpapers and the like, not RFQ's.

Same for consulting clients, like the banks they also issue 1099 reports to the tax authorities. So why should they be treated differently?

Same with banks. They pay grandma Miller $2k/year interest, report that on a 1099 and she has to make quarterly payments. Uncle Leroy's freelance clients pays him $2k and also report that on a 1099. What is the difference?

I know exactly how H1-B works. The agency then _is_ their employer.

Assuming you are a UK citizen, if you do not already have a green card those effort will be in vain. They will not even consider you because all the H1-B slots are usually already taken and the process can also be tedious.

To use your bakery example: Imagine a bakery with a long line outside, a quarter million people. But they only have 55,000 loaves of bread and some customers buy dozens at a time. A sign goes up "Sorry, we are now out of bread. Come back at the same time in 2015". Why would anyone even consider to remain in line?

If you take one away from a company then projects at that company will come to grief unless they find a new and capable analog engineer. Which they usually can't. If they pilfer one the problem only moves to the next company. Seen it happen umpteen times.

In case anyone is in dire need and thinks about trying: No, I will not reveal the identity of analog engineers at clients. Never.

Maybe in the UK, I don't know your job market. I don't think you understand the US job market too well.

That will stop many start-ups dead in the tracks. Analog guys are paid well but some projects never come off the ground because of the shortage. Or they take less experienced engineers and fail.

Agree, but how many people do you pesonally know who can do that? People whom you can throw smack dab into the cold water and tell them "Please design us a pulse-echo system and we need it to go into agency compliance testing by January.

No, the right strategy would be this: Hire young but smart engineers with very little practical experience of which there are plenty available. Then place a consultant at their side for a longer term. Large companies often completely fail to understand such a strategy. Smaller ones do understand. I just designed a very unorthodox pulse-echo device that heavily relies on the digital domain to keep it low cost. But the engineer must understand exactly how it works or would fail even at the code writing stage. So I coached a guy about half my age through the process and that client (small company) now has a system that can and will beat the daylights out of big-corp competitors.

No kidding, and consulting can be termed engineering/scientific assistant, so they can hit the circuit as consultants whether you like it or not.

Renting out H1-B folks ist still not legit. It isn't enforced just like the prevailing wage isn't. All it takes to make H1-B a great and fair program is enforcing the law that's already there. It is super easy but not done. And that's the whole problem.

ISTR that the specific rules for technical people were a hate bomb lobbed by some senator against an enemy long ago. It isn't like that in other professions, e.g. music teachers.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

in principle none, in reality there is a big difference if grandma Miller get $2k/year interest she has money in the bank and collecting tax is easy

if millions of workers were reclassified as "consultants" and had to remember to save up for their taxes, the government runs the risk that a large number of them can't pay because they spent all their money

the government making a "loan" of 2k to someone they know have 20k in the bank has very little risk

making "loans" of large parts of a paycheck to lots of people with out knowing anything about their ability to pay has substantial risk

-Lasse

And the traces of that event have probably conveniently disappeared in a "computer crash" :-)

Problem is that this places a continuous damper on the innovatuion in our country. I've had that situation many times where companies said "We can't do a 1099-relationship" and years later I found out that they never found anyone else and the project went lalaland. Cases where I could have easily salvaged it.

Also, when companies relocate to Outlandia that whole problem completely goes away, along with scores of other problems. My old employer is doing just that, moving to Costa Rica.