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I just don't think that salaries are high enough for engineers that have been working for 2 years, that we can employ a market-based model for just the highest paid ones. I guess to be fair you could lengthen the OPT visa period to like 5 years, but that just seems cruel to all of the OPT folks who don't make it

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Yeah OPT is way too short after college (I think 2-3 years max). And it does make sense to expand it to 5 years and offer a time based path to a green card (which many other countries do employ).

But there is the risk people might game the system to take advantage of that framework (though that sounds like a higher hurdle than the H1B charade now).

There isn’t an easy answer but for sure what exists now isn’t working.

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