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All good.

Just don't say that you're hiring the best or the top 0.01% then, we all know where these ones are, they are either at FAANG or at a wholly $10B+ well funded AI lab.

> "What - you expect them to admit they hire the mediocre?"

They don't have to, we know they are.

But now they might as well admit it since the ones that can't afford the fee are the ones crying about the H1B situation.

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'We need the smartest people' - we can afford. That last bit is the unspoken part. They want to maximize their headcount for a given budget. They're just responding to market dynamics.

Also, FAANG do not hire the smartest people. They have the budget to hoover up as many potentials as possible in order to keep them away from their competitors. The smart ones quickly realize this and leave.

They are not saying the h1-bs they hire are better than the domestic workers that are hired , they are just marginally better than the domestic subsection of the population that is not qualified anyway.It is not magic , it is a numbers game.