Top ten companies with approved H1B visas in 2017.
Company. H1B Salary Bach/Mstrs/PhD
COGNIZANT 28,908 85k 22k/6.5k
TCS. 14,697. 73k. 11k/2.9k
INFOSYS. 13,408. 85k. 10k/3k
WIPRO. 6,529. 75k. 3.9k/2.5k
DELLOITTE. 6,027. 106k. 3.9k/2k
ACCENTURE. 5,070. 85k. 3.6k/1.4k
TECH MAH. 4,931. 78k. 3.1k/1.7k
AMAZON. 4,767. 118k. 3.2k/1.3k
HCL. 4,392. 87k. 2.7k/1.6k
MSFT. 4069. 130k. 2.1k/1.6k
CAPGEMINI. 3580. 84k. 2.6k/1.1k
IBM. 3000. 79k. 1.8k/1.1k
GOOGLE. 2758. 134k. 1.7k/0.7k/0.3k
INTEL. 2625. 104k. 2k/0.2k/0.4k
APPLE. 2055. 142k. 1.1k/0.6k/0.2k
CISCO. 1587. 128k. 1k/0.6k
FACEBOOK. 1566. 145k. 0.9k/0.5k/0.1k
ORACLE. 1546. 123K. 1k/0.6k
- Some of these companies have approvals for people without bachelor or masters degrees.
- Immigrants who have long wait times (153 years for Indians, 6 years for Chinese) to get PR, how do you feel about this?
Source : https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/BAHA/Approved_H1B_2017_Employers_3.2.18.pdf
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Part of me is angry at the wealthy taking advantage of things like this, but part of me is also empathetic for people who want a better life in the US. I am here because my grandparents/great grandparents had the opportunity to come here, as many other Europeans did in the early 20th century.
Borders are pretty dumb for limiting opportunities, based on where you are born. The world didn’t have modern borders or visas until 100ish years ago.
Before you complain about immigration legal and illegal, do some research...
An undergrad from IIT is way more better than a masters degree from a ton of average universities in USA.
I've heard of Infosys folks in Bay area working at tech Giants making 80k/year. Most of the time they're clearly not as skilled for qualifications of fang job. But still 80k in the bay.... No raises, no promos, no hope. I'm a h1b now at google, and it makes me feel super duper guilty that my dad had to go through that to put me through college.
Well yeah people live on $15 in the bay. But not in the tech industry. There's additional costs/uncertainty too. My dad had to pay partially for green card app, and anytime he wants to send app on premium processing ($1200). For my dad the issue was raising family of 4 with college and what not while living with uncertainty that he could be sent home and not make US wages anymore.
Many of his colleagues were sent to India with 1 week notice(applied for h1b, and then withdrew application). He will likely be sent back this year, but our education is finished so he's happy. They are also treated like work horses and work everyday of the week. He said policy at capgemini right now is 1 person onshore(in USA) for every 15 people offshore(in India) and plan is to try complete offshoring soon(they've tried this before but clients get pissed when the employees they talk to are in completely different time zone).
Thanks, we're happy my dad's sacrifice was worth it in the end. I make twice what my dad does with 1.5yrs experience and we both live in high COL areas. He has 30 YOE. You live and you learn.
Such visa extensions are getting rejected by USCIS now in bulk - reason is not a specialty occupation
Also, while these salaries are low for the Bay Area, a lot of these folks are in parts of the country where that amount is good money.
…and a lot of these Indian-based companies are kept afloat by the US companies who want to save the costs by not directly hiring!
Why, because direct-hires would cost a lot more than what these Indian-based companies’ hire tend to cost and that is the real cause.
Seems like a long-term side effect of capitalism
Some rejections are unfair though where they only look at the person’s engineering major instead of his entire experience and skillset.
Hopefully they define a fair standard for what they think is acceptable for h1b.
You must have sucked as an engineer if you had to switch in order to earn good money.
Hope that 45 can do something about it although he is right now fixated on the wall so legal immigration isn’t even in background ....