alt Hacker NewsNonsense. None of the top companies are H1B abusers. Meta, Google, Microsoft are all using H1Bs for the intended purpose. The abusers are companies not in tech industry like Disney etc. who bring in H1Bs to decrease their payroll expense. Top tech companies don't do that.
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GOD_Over_Djinn • yesterday at 10:33 PM
There are a ton of highly qualified American citizens that are not able to find work, or are underemployed. The layoffs of the past few years have made it very clear that there is an abundance of local talent, and big tech hiring from outside is not about a lack of labor supply
mikert89 • yesterday at 8:19 PM
Clearly youve never worked inside these companies
Disney might not care about appearances, and the HQs might be flagrantly flouting the rules, but what of the hundred subsidiaries and shadow corps that are their hands and feet? They don't need to court those hires.
An acquaintance is an H1B at an Alphabet (owned) corp, hired to work a position that anyone with an Industrial Engineering BS could. And he only found out who owned his employer after an inspection by HQ prior to the scale up for Bard.
I'm happy he got the opportunity, and it enabled his family to marry him and for his new wife to come to the US and start a teaching position at a university, but his role could have been filled by a local grad... if they could have been convinced to accept his salary.