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It’s never been clear to me why this program exists in the first place, other than to put downward pressure on US STEM wages. What am I missing?
I'd rather have H1-B visas be a 5 year unrestricted work permit. America needs to keep attracting the world's best and brightest, but linking it to a specific employer is problematic. Opens up employees to mistreatment. I'd say charge a straight up fee, 500k upon approval. That gets you 5 years, if your wiz making 400k a year it's a great deal.
Cancel the program. It's not needed. It's used to game the system. It's not supposed to be a backdoor to a green card.
This H1B program is gamed so hard its a joke at this point. I personally witnessed someone that submit multiple applications that this person won the H1B lottery. This person even had fake office, fake business address, etc for the fake entities. I already reported it, but no action has been taken. This person is now happily employed in the US using H1B. Unethical life pro tips but work: for those of you trying to ge…
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Right, the desperate need for talent is the reason these programs are used so heavily. It's not discounted salary and cost savings in benefits, insurance, and other areas for non-permanent employees, or having leverage over immigrant employees in negotiations. Corporations only ever use these programs to get the absolute best of the best and they absolutely aren't abused to bypass the stricter regulations and require…
I didn’t believe it until I saw it, but look at the classified section of the San Francisco newspaper where big tech companies post job listing knowing that Americans won’t see them so they can say they tried to get domestic talent. My neighbor is on a visa from mumbai working at Chase who was brought in as the lead frontend engineer (def can’t find Javascript devs in the US). Even he admitted it’s weird that his who…
Cancel the program. It's not needed. It's used to game the system. It's not supposed to be a backdoor to a green card.
How do you propose hiring tech talent then
It’s never been clear to me why this program exists in the first place, other than to put downward pressure on US STEM wages. What am I missing?
Hypothetically it exists to allow companies to hire singular overseas experts like von Braun or Einstein that don't have domestic equivalents. It has become totally accepted to lie on the application though and now it is used to hire Java developers.
Ah, classic regulatory theater. The administration, after 4 years of not introducing these changes, is now suddenly scrambling to roll them out. They’re dropping them right before a major transition, with an implementation timeline conveniently set for after the transition. It’s a clever little maneuver. When the inevitable reversal happens, they can show up at fundraising galas telling donors, “We tried! We were so…
It's not the only last minute thing the administration does that it could have done before: - Launched rockets from Ukraine - remote work contracts extended to 2029 after Elon + Vivek wants people to RTO - TikTok ban And the classic answer is always the same here: ,,it was all planned for years'' (sure, but the decision is made after the elections on purpose)
That’s not to excuse the slowness, but I imagine this stuff was in process for a while.
Cancel the program. It's not needed. It's used to game the system. It's not supposed to be a backdoor to a green card.