In 2019, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were collectively granted ~27,000 H-1B visas, over 30% of total visas available to private companies
built on an influx of global brainpower, vibrant university system, cities that encourage the spontaneous interaction of people and ideas—has worked so well that policy makers have taken it for granted Now it's slowing By @calebwatney https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @eemoin : I am so sick of the shorthand of blaming “the pandemic” for things that were entirely within the control of human beings in our government. https://twitter.com/... John Kroencke / @johnkroencke : “if the nation's capacity for economic and technological innovation is diminished, Americans will feel the loss for decades to come...” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Michael Zelenko / @mvzelenks : Six charts that clearly illustrate why Big Tech freaked out when Trump tried to expel foreign students Tech's Increasing Dependence on Foreign Students, in Six Charts by Kira Tebbe in @OZM https://onezero.medium.com/... OneZero / @ozm : Any way you slice it, sponsoring international technical workers has been integral to the growth of top tech companies. https://read.medium.com/xlBbq8d Sarah Kessler / @sarahfkessler : More than 50% of STEM graduate degrees go to international students. @k_tebbe explains tech's increasing dependence on foreign students in six charts on @ozm https://onezero.medium.com/... Kira Tebbe / @k_tebbe : I wrote a data-driven article for @ozm about tech and international students, in response to the recently rescinded ICE policy. Not only do tech companies rely heavily on H1-B visas, but int'l STEM students are outpacing their American peers. Read it here: https://onezero.medium.com/...
New from me in @TheAtlantic: America's innovation engine was built on an influx of global brainpower, a vibrant university system, and industrial clusters in big cities. The pandemic is now disassembling that engine in remarkably precise ways. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Apple helps with visas and relocation. I'm not a US citizen. 5-6 years ago Apple applied for my H1B and my application wasn't selected. Then Apple applied for my L1 and I got it after working remotely for a year.
Fascinating that 27K of the 85K annual H1-B visas are used by Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
“What Americans should not do is expect past economic momentum to carry the U.S. through the present crisis...the sources of economic innovation in the United States won't just maintain themselves.” @calebwatney in the Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
US innovation engine—built on an influx of global brainpower, vibrant university system, cities that encourage the spontaneous interaction of people and ideas—has worked so well that policy makers have taken it for granted Now it's slowing By @calebwatney https://www.theatlantic.…
I am so sick of the shorthand of blaming “the pandemic” for things that were entirely within the control of human beings in our government. https://twitter.com/...
“if the nation's capacity for economic and technological innovation is diminished, Americans will feel the loss for decades to come...” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Six charts that clearly illustrate why Big Tech freaked out when Trump tried to expel foreign students Tech's Increasing Dependence on Foreign Students, in Six Charts by Kira Tebbe in @OZM https://onezero.medium.com/...
Any way you slice it, sponsoring international technical workers has been integral to the growth of top tech companies. https://read.medium.com/xlBbq8d
More than 50% of STEM graduate degrees go to international students. @k_tebbe explains tech's increasing dependence on foreign students in six charts on @ozm https://onezero.medium.com/...
I wrote a data-driven article for @ozm about tech and international students, in response to the recently rescinded ICE policy. Not only do tech companies rely heavily on H1-B visas, but int'l STEM students are outpacing their American peers. Read it here: https://onezero.medium.…