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It must be hard to quit a full-time job as an engineer at Facebook
Posted by euphemus on 10/10/25 at 5:56 pm
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I think there may be some stipulations if you make over 500k but I think that is
Any thoughts on how this affects a couple making ~$700K per year in W2 income only in a HCOL state? The $10K per year limit since 2017 hasn't been good for us since we live in a high income tax state and have a couple of investment properties too. Going forward, are we going to be able to deduct something more than $10K at least even if we don't get the benefit of the full $40K? Is there some kind of a phase down schedule somewhere that I can see?
Is he open to relocating out of state to work in an entry level role in Big Tech? If so can you have him email me his resume at euphemus at outlook dot com?
NVDA dropping below $110 tomorrow at market open. Time to load up!
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Posted by euphemus on 1/22/25 at 1:46 pm
re: AMA: I came to this country on a H1B visa, am now a green card holder and work in tech
Posted by euphemus on 12/27/24 at 10:01 pm to jimmy the leg
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Does it frustrate you seeing the red carpet being laid out in front of the invaders by the Dems/RINOs?
In one of my earlier posts, I talked about how there was a shift towards the Republicans among the immigrant community. I vividly remember the moment when the illegal border crossing crisis became a turning point for me: I was watching a video on Twitter that was shared by RFK, Elon, or Vivek (I can't remember who), where I saw a Sikh family illegally crossing the border somewhere along the Mexican border and being encountered by Border Patrol while seeking asylum. From my multiple trips to Canada and interactions with many Sikhs at gas stations, I know there is no crisis in India that would justify someone from there seeking political asylum. At that moment, I just knew the border needed to be shut down and that we needed a wall, just as Trump had said during his first term. It was a crossing the Rubicon moment for me.
tl; dr - we need to shut down the southern border and build a wall like yesterday.
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check the demographics from the annual LSU engineering graduation and explain the lack of white males. in masters and doctoral programs.
My advisor had 4 Indians, 2 Taiwanese, 3 Korean and 2 Americans (white) under him. Maybe that split has gotten more skewed towards foreign students in recent times? I'm not sure. :dunno:
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Was this the same for your wife? Did she also come here after completing her undergrad in the country? (same country?) Did either of you have credit in that country?
Yes. Parents typically have no problem cosigning loans in our culture, especially for higher education.
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Did you know you both were going to get GA when you left?
When you are getting a Master's or a PhD in Engineering, it is very common to expect that you will get a GA at some point working under an advisor.
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Did the bank expect to give you more loans?
Yep, I could have drawn more from the credit line if I had to, but thankfully I didn't have to.
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That's not clear, were these US federal aid loans or private loans?
Who paid for you while you were in university.
I took a loan from a bank in the country of my birth. My graduate research assistantship paid me while I was a the university.
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Again unclear, did you get graduate assistantship after your first semester or were there 8 semesters of loans.
The loan was for the first semester tuition. I attended 2-1/2 years of grad school or 5 semesters in total. The graduate assistantship paid for semesters 2-5 (4 semesters total). This is very typical of engineering graduate students. Nothing special or out of the ordinary.
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Do you love America, baw?
Asked and answered in different ways in this thread. :usa: :cheers:
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I will make one observation about the original post; at no time do you express gratitude to your adopted country
I addressed this in my subsequent posts. The OP was not meant to be comprehensive by any means.
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Why was America a bigger draw to you over other Western countries?
Considered Australia briefly, but I knew people who had come here already and had extended family, that made the decision easier. I didn't know anybody in Australia.
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Once you got here how much culture shock did you experience?
It wasn't that bad now that I think about it. I think it was a bit of a shock for a few months, but then it all just blended in and started to make sense.
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Knowing what you know now would you do it all again?
100%.
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Did you / do you ever send money back to family in your home country and what do you make of wanting to tax remittances at 100%?
The only time I sent back money was to pay off the student loan I took to pay for my first semester fees. Thankfully both my parents and in-laws are self sufficient and don't need any monetary support. I am not qualified to speak about whether taxing 100% of international remittances is a good idea or not.
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How hard was the decision to come here and leave everything and everyone you knew behind?
Hard and still is. That's why we make it a point to visit our country of birth once a year at least to keep in touch with family. It is the hardest on the aging parents, but they understand why we moved here more than you can imagine.
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Congrats on doing it the right way. I’m genuinely happy reading stories like yours.
:cheers: Thank you my good sir.
re: AMA: I came to this country on a H1B visa, am now a green card holder and work in tech
Posted by euphemus on 12/27/24 at 4:52 pm to Giantkiller
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So fly your American Flag, enjoy the July 4 BBQ and tell the rest of these motherfrickers to eat a dick.
We display an American flag outside our home and have flag stickers on our cars. Not shy to display our patriotism for this country. :usa:
re: AMA: I came to this country on a H1B visa, am now a green card holder and work in tech
Posted by euphemus on 12/27/24 at 4:49 pm to MemphisGuy
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Dude's been here 25 years. I'd argue that he IS in his own country now.
I've lived longer here than in my country of birth. So yeah.
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What hampered you and your wife in achieving such goals in your home country(ies)? Could you have done it there more difficultly or was it pretty much impossible? What would need to change there in order for that to have happened?
When a country has socialist or communist tendencies, the freedoms and opportunities to start companies or to be entrepreneurial just don't exist, like it does here. Most societies outside the US are very risk averse and risk taking is not rewarded like it is here. The US seems more focused on maximizing upside potential, while other cultures prioritize minimizing downside risk.
It is kind of hard to explain to native born Americans how "free" this country actually is. See what is happening in Europe for example. 20 years ago the US and the European Union GDP was the same, now the US has leap frogged them. It is not an accident. Despite its flaws, the US remains the shining star on the hill.
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In your respective field(s), is there a driving need for more H1B visas? If so, why do you think that is?
The answer used to be yes (and I know that won't be a popular answer) before the GenAI boom. But now I am not so sure. My team is getting minimal HC increase next year, with the expectation that the folks that are already here can leverage AI to be more productive and do more. More H1B is not the answer I think. The answer should be more along the lines of making it easier for the smart people to immigrate more easily to the US IMHO.
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Who paid for your college degrees? (of both you and your wife)
I already answered it. We took bank loans to pay for the first semester fees. Once we got familiar with the campus and our respective programs, we were able to both land graduate assistantships that helped us pay the rest of the way.
re: AMA: I came to this country on a H1B visa, am now a green card holder and work in tech
Posted by euphemus on 12/27/24 at 4:36 pm to boomtown143
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Who would you have voted for?
Trump. I am firmly in the Elon/Sacks/Vivek tech-right camp just given my education and industry background, but do know that not everyone here is onboard with the tech-right agenda right now. But the good thing among the Republicans is that at least there is a vigorous debate right now that is shining light on the issue, but with the Dems, any open debate would have been squashed.
Anecdotally, I saw a wild swing to the right among all my immigrant friends this last election given where the country was headed (away from meritocracy). What happened in Harris County in Texas was not an accident. I was part of such a community that shifted hard to the right and saw the vibe shift first hand sometime between 2022 and 2024.
re: AMA: I came to this country on a H1B visa, am now a green card holder and work in tech
Posted by euphemus on 12/27/24 at 4:29 pm to RedmanChew
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What bothers me about H1B isn’t the high paying jobs being taken but the entry level and/or blue collar jobs being taken. Part of what made me quit long haul trucking (besides getting old) is that it’s getting flooded with an innumerable amount of foreigners, most of whom are total retards who don’t belong behind the wheel.
Tl;dr if we have an economy that is “strong” but built on low quality labor and production then we don’t have a strong economy at all. That’s really my gripe
The legal immigration discussion needs to be much more nuanced IMO. I can't argue against what you are saying in any way. Legal immigration needs to be points based and skills based on should scale up on down based on the number of jobs that are open at any given time or something to that effect to make is fair for US born American workers. But unfortunately that is too logical and complicated to work in Washington.
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Government supported foreigner male get to go to graduate school. Go back to the country that paid your way
You think the country I came from paid for my grad school? I wish that were the case. Lol. I took loans out for the first semester tuition and then I got a graduate assistant research position that help pay for my tuition the rest of the way.
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Do you think things are different now than 23 years ago in terms of American educated vs immigrant talent? Both in skill and need.
"Frankly, I don't see much of a difference in intelligence between US-born white people and those born elsewhere. I had the privilege of working with incredibly intelligent individuals in graduate school, some of whom were from both groups. I now observe the same diversity of talent in my current workplace.
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Do you consider yourself grateful and lucky or do you consider yourself “necessary”?
Great question. Would America have been fine without someone like me coming here? Absolutely. I consider myself extremely lucky to have had the chance to come here and build the life we have. Having said that, I would like to think we are a net positive to this country based on the amount of taxes we pay (both income and SALT), the money we spend etc. and are not a drag on the country in terms of consuming government resources.
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How have you seen companies abuse the H1B workers in your career? Did you try to stop it or did you have no say?
There is definitely abuse in the H1B system that needs to be fixed, but I think that is mostly among the IT service companies. I have had the good fortune to work in externally large companies, where they can't game the system and the companies jump through multiple hoops and spend thousand of dollars in lawyer fees on paperwork before they can hire somebody on a H1B visa. Now that I am a hiring manager myself and interview folks throughout the year, given a choice, I would absolutely hire an American citizen over a foreign worker just to save us from all the months long delay and paperwork that come with hiring somebody that requires a visa sponsorship.
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Do you think there’s a hiring bias where Indians get in management and only hire other Indians?
Nepotism exists in all walks of life and among all demographics I think. I have seen it among Indians, Chinese, Koreans etc., but having said that, yearly performance reviews at large tech companies are very formulaic and objective with 360 degrees reviews from cross functional business partners, so even if someone got hired over somebody else due to a prior relationship, they wouldn't survive in the role too long if they are not good at it. Mediocre workers get exposed and can't be protected too long.
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