India's Tata Consultancy Was Gaming the US Visa System
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#3This is common knowledge. Fucking pricks should be banned. Ruining H1B prospects for many deserving candidates
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#4Theres nothing new here. Everyone knows, when you join outsourcing orgs in India, the goal is to go on-site. There is lot of internal politics and toxicity to be in that position to go onsite.
Recently, I have seen these orgs. do the same in europe. They are just bombarding the system with applications.
What is the motivation you ask? For billable resource, rates are different for resource when they are on-site vs off-site. Margins are better too.
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#5no. shit. sherlock.
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#6Here's what I don't get about TCS: I worked for a local Fortune 100 company, and 20 years ago they started outsourcing IT-related jobs to TCS (and a couple smaller staffing companies). Mostly in India and South America.
Then about 10 years ago, the company dedicated almost an entire building to TCS, and TCS starting hiring contractors locally, and perhaps moved H1B's here to work on-site?
What's the next step, start hiring off-shore again?
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#7The easiest way to solve this is to salary rank the H1B applicants. Those with the highest salaries get picked; not the ‘lucky ones’ that get through a lottery, which puts a PhD from MIT and a new hire at Tata from a no name school in India on equal footing. And I say this as someone who was on H1B. The current system benefits no one but these visa mills.
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Re: India's Tata Consultancy Was Gaming the US Visa System
#8Here's what I don't get about TCS: I worked for a local Fortune 100 company, and 20 years ago they started outsourcing IT-related jobs to TCS (and a couple smaller staffing companies). Mostly in India and South America. Then about 10 years ago, the company dedicated almost an entire building to TCS, and TCS starting hiring contractors locally, and perhaps moved H1B's here to work on-site? What's the next step, start…
You have to maintain certain ratio to hire locally and move h1b employees. Quite sometimes, you need client facing employee to be a local.
Also, what i have seen in europe is that, there is a mandate where in they have to publish the job locally and when they cannot find the employee, they can sponsor a visa and bring them into the country. However, what they do is, they would reject all the local candidates and claim that they could not find the candidate with right technology fit.
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#9I've had a rule for many years: "it will be gamed, no exceptions." All systems, economies, markets, etc. will be gamed.
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#10Shocker. We've known this for 20+ years now.