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H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation

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Re: H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation

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Post by sumedh »

srameshc wrote: post #8

Exposed what ? It has brought some great talent to the country and helped with talent immigration for sure, everyone knows it. There is a phase when there is a sacrifice for the candidate but then people change jobs even when green card processing is throught the stages.

> then people change jobs even when green card processing is throught the stages.

Finding employers who will sponsor is not easy so the employees are essentially locked to the sponsoring company, dont complain too much.

Re: H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation

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Post by silisili »

Suppafly wrote: post #9
whatwhaaaaat wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No the solution is hiring American workers and implementing strict on soil laws for pii just like other countries are doing (India for example). I have learned a great deal and been enriched by my friendships with foreign born workers, but to act like h1b workers come “ready to perform software engineering duties” at any higher rate than new grad higher is funny.

>No the solution is hiring American workers This, I don't understand how we have tons of un- and underemployed American workers and yet somehow businesses have convinced the government that they need to import workers.

The answer isn't one a lot of people are willing to talk about, but personally, I don't care.

The problem isn't "businesses", it's other Indians. They take entire tech orgs over, then only hire each other. They make up bizarre reasons why US workers won't fit while spamming H1B applications.

Before you grab your pitchforks, or try to dox me for racism one, please understand it's not all Indian people, obviously. There are so many in the US, and the majority are good people. But there's an extremely clear pattern that's emerged that you'd have to be blind not to see.

Re: H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation

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Post by throwaway2056 »

Suppafly wrote: post #9
whatwhaaaaat wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No the solution is hiring American workers and implementing strict on soil laws for pii just like other countries are doing (India for example). I have learned a great deal and been enriched by my friendships with foreign born workers, but to act like h1b workers come “ready to perform software engineering duties” at any higher rate than new grad higher is funny.

>No the solution is hiring American workers This, I don't understand how we have tons of un- and underemployed American workers and yet somehow businesses have convinced the government that they need to import workers.

True. But the common man on the street wants things to be cheap. This is not sustainable unless on imports cheap h1b (or other overworked foreigners).

Edit: This is not meant to support h1b.

Ideal case - people that are not on H1B and work in these companies - contact your CEO/managers. People don't do that. Instead are happy to argue (or downvote) here.

Re: H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation

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Post by throwaway2056 »

billsunshine wrote: post #4

No doubt h1b is abused. Corporations use it to structurally underpay tech labor. Shame to anyone defending this abuse as some sort of pro immigration policy - it hurts both domestic workers and underpays migrant labor. The question is - what % of this labor could be sourced domestically and what actually needs to be imported?

You should try to communicate to managers (that are US citizens or greencard holders) that decide on H1B/outsourcing.

Re: H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation

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Post by orangecoffee »

650 wrote: post #2

With all the discourse around H1Bs recently, I ask what the alternative is? Offshoring and workers paying taxes in their own countries? The common argument of X number of CS grads unemployed fails to hold as CS has been a monkey degree over the past few years due to the rush for money. Some investigation will show many graduates are not able to perform software engineering duties up to par, and sub par graduates comp…

The solution is simple, but unpalatable to us. With AI, SWE-1 becomes a minimum wage job, with SWE2 (1.5X), SWE3 (2X) and SWE4 (3x). With such a rationalization we will retain more of the work here, or this will move. Government policies cannot control this as it will mean losing tech hegemony.

Is it worth taking a hit on higher compensation for longer term peace of mind?

Re: H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation

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Post by bigfatkitten »

silisili wrote: post #13
Suppafly wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>No the solution is hiring American workers This, I don't understand how we have tons of un- and underemployed American workers and yet somehow businesses have convinced the government that they need to import workers.

The answer isn't one a lot of people are willing to talk about, but personally, I don't care. The problem isn't "businesses", it's other Indians. They take entire tech orgs over, then only hire each other. They make up bizarre reasons why US workers won't fit while spamming H1B applications. Before you grab your pitchforks, or try to dox me for racism one, please understand it's not all Indian people, obviously. Ther…

The pattern I’ve seen emerge is that the only successful candidates just happen to be of the same ethnolinguistic background as the hiring manager. Merely being Indian is not enough.

Re: H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation

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Post by hshdhdhj4444 »

jetskii wrote: post #7

$196k average at Capital One? Even with HCOL, that's a very good salary. I feel like they could certainly find competent citizens willing to work for that wage...

Or, Capital One could hire the exact same people they’re paying $196k to for a quarter of the cost once they’ve been sent back to their own countries.

Re: H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation

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Post by ta9000 »

bigfatkitten wrote: post #17
silisili wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The answer isn't one a lot of people are willing to talk about, but personally, I don't care. The problem isn't "businesses", it's other Indians. They take entire tech orgs over, then only hire each other. They make up bizarre reasons why US workers won't fit while spamming H1B applications. Before you grab your pitchforks, or try to dox me for racism one, please understand it's not all Indian people, obviously. Ther…

The pattern I’ve seen emerge is that the only successful candidates just happen to be of the same ethnolinguistic background as the hiring manager. Merely being Indian is not enough.

That’s still discrimination.
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