>Many of the Google visas are for new employees, with some starting as soon as August 17th.
Anyone here from Google want to pose some interesting questions to Sundar at the next all hands?
Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs
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#22> Pichai’s firm filed applications for low-paid foreign workers
Google salary bands are the same whatever visa you're (not) on, and they're certainly not low-paid. This "article" is ridiculous xenophobic garbage.
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#23This is not surprising. Big tech would love to fire 50% of their engineers and replace them all with H1Bs. Immigrants get shit done.
Thank you, Bari Weiss.
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#24Big tech is redistributing extremely privileged salaries to tragically underserved markets. I applaud them.
We're talking about immigration to the US here, not offshoring. Immigrants are part of the US economy.
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#25Whoever wrote this doesn't understand how the H-1B system works. Most of these applications are for existing employees of the company who are on some other kind of work authorization (like EAD or OPT). Because of the lottery they have to reapply every year for 3-4 years until their authorization expires. The layoffs have nothing to do with anything.
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#26> Google filed dozens of applications for foreign workers to serve as software engineers... For comparison, Google laid off 12,000 employees this cycle.
And there was no one capable for these roles in those 12,000 people? I find that hard to believe. If the answer is “no”, prove it (I have been the sponsor of H1Bs, and am familiar with the paperwork and the process).
Edit:
> Normalizing reneging on job offers is a bad path to go down.
Google has already done this previously during economic uncertainty.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/29/google-said-to-rescind-job-o...
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#27> Pichai’s firm filed applications for low-paid foreign workers to come to America and take highly specialized tech jobs. 1. Fire high-paid workers 2. Import low-paid ones 3. ... 4. Profit.
Google isn't TCS or Wipro. It pays H1B workers very high wages.
I am sure they pay their H1B workers less than their non-H1B workers.
So it still may be "high wages" but that does not negate the GrandParent comment that they laid off higher paid workers in favor in importing lower paid workers
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#28> Google filed dozens of applications for foreign workers to serve as software engineers... For comparison, Google laid off 12,000 employees this cycle.
And there was no one capable for these roles in those 12,000 people? I find that hard to believe. If the answer is “no”, prove it (I have been the sponsor of H1Bs, and am familiar with the paperwork and the process). Edit: > Normalizing reneging on job offers is a bad path to go down. Google has already done this previously during economic uncertainty. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/29/google-said-to-rescind-job-o...
That’s not really how it works. It’s hard to be fine-grained when firing 12k people. It’s operational much easier to do the layoff and then fix the gaps.
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#29I don't see why that is inconsistent. Companies doing layoffs keep hiring people, what are the news?
The implied “problem” is that these companies are loopholing the H1-B process to hire for positions that American workers were laid off from. Of course, lawyers know how to make things work. > The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherw…
Most comment proves how readers easily see through garbage article like this nowadays. Maybe transparency is a good thing after all.
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#30> Google filed dozens of applications for foreign workers to serve as software engineers... For comparison, Google laid off 12,000 employees this cycle.
And there was no one capable for these roles in those 12,000 people? I find that hard to believe. If the answer is “no”, prove it (I have been the sponsor of H1Bs, and am familiar with the paperwork and the process). Edit: > Normalizing reneging on job offers is a bad path to go down. Google has already done this previously during economic uncertainty. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/29/google-said-to-rescind-job-o...
Its not about capability, but power and money