The Labor Department will stop accepting permanent labor certification filings from Microsoft, Adobe and six IT services firms, Vice President JD Vance said. Microsoft says most of its H-1B filings were for people it already employs.
There is no founder visa. What exists is a set of instruments used for purposes they were not designed for, and choosing among them shapes the company.
Organized share buybacks were a founder's privilege in the last cycle. They have become a retention tool aimed at engineers.
Compensation for machine-learning roles is stabilizing as supply catches up, and the premium is migrating from model training to deployment skills.