https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-election-jobs-insight/ctrl-alt-stall-indias-engineers-struggle-for-work-as-jobs-crisis-worsens-idUSKBN1QT0GS Six months on, the 27-year-old repairs mixer-grinders, table fans and other household appliances at a cramped shop in the western city of Pune. On better days, he picks up broken LED lights from scrap dealers, fixes them, then sells them. He earns about $50 a month, just enough to cover the rent for the room he shares with two others as his home. “I haven’t even started repaying my education loan,” said Gurav, referring to the nearly $4,000 he’d borrowed for his undergraduate study. He is one of hundreds of thousands of engineers - studying everything from computer code to civil engineering - that India’s education system churns out each year, many with large loans and little prospect of finding a job in their field.
Thought trump wanted to decrease h1b
This article hurts my ego but is probably a very good picture of reality. 80% of Engineers not employable. That hit me hard even if it’s an exaggerated number, cannot be far from reality
A lot of our colleges, save for a few like the IITs (and I say this as someone who studied at a second tier college) are just degree mills and have a very low academic standard, with a syllabus that is not relevant to what's needed in industry at all. So graduating from such a college doesn't count for much at all. Add to that not knowing English and not being able to program (which can be the case even for CS grads due to rampant cheating in exams) and I don't see how they could be employable at all.
Too many H1Bs as it is. India’s problem is they’re producing far too many engineers than they need. Probably by a factor of 50x. It would be the same as if millions of Americans went and got a humanities degree and complained about not getting a job, but are saddled with 100k in student loan debt.
This is the correct answer.
Its in our best interest to do what we can to ensure new immigrant citizens have their job protected from overseas competition. The employment struggles of overseas people is NOT our concern. —Signed, Democratic Workers of America
Don't they collect billions in fraud by scamming American taxpayers with those IRS scam calls? Should we really be concerning ourselves with their problems? Engineer a solution for that with those fancy degrees.
The article linked mentions several issues with skills mismatch between jobs and graduates... the people who would be able to get H1B are already most likely very employable there. If anything, draining more and more talent from India has got to be hurting them in the long run, IMO.
Nope. The consulting chop shops spam thousands of applications from these people who have these "skills mismatches", but meet the minimum criteria for an H1b on paper. They play a numbers game and submit overwhelming numbers of applications just to dominate the lottery, often only sending in partly completed applications knowing that it is missing information that will attract an RFE, but not caring. Then they take the winners and send them on to additional training while they respond to the RFE's around the missing information. In the end this is a statistical process. A certain number of their applications win, a certain number of those end in denial after RFE, and the rest are trained up to some minimal extent so they can go an work cheap in the US and displace a higher paid American. We are not talking about the big tech / FANG h1b folks here, but the rank and file applications from TCS, Infosys, TM, Wipro, Capgemini, etc This is why you have a 100 year wait for a greencard.
And Aspiring Minds, whose founder is quoted in the the article as saying there's a skills mismatch, is primarily responsible for a part of the interview process of the absolutely garbage outsourcing companies mentioned above. Imagine that. Most of the people they evaluate don't even meet the bar for these sweatshops.