https://www.livemint.com/news/world/h-1b-visa-how-us-most-sought-after-visas-help-americans-11598313370343.html Link to the article talking about the two Bloomberg Opinion columnists. Rachel Rosenthal owns Noah Smith IMO #workvisa #h1b
Don't know about elsewhere but general consensus in our org is there is rampant H1B abuse in VMware.
Why is that so? Do you believe VMware hires internationals for cheaper wages?
IMO, it seems to be more because managers expect the worker bees to attend evening calls that go from like 8pm to 12 am and morning calls starting at 7am with teams located in India. I doubt citizens would tolerate this nonsense. White people in our org have routinely stood up to this and have been systematically eliminated during yearly layoffs. Like I said, this seems extremely pronounced in our org. I'm on H1B.
Obviously both sides are right. Bringing bright and talented engineers is good for economy and for the country. Bringing low qualified cheap workers with fake resumes is not so good. The problem is that H1-B brings both - high and low quality.
And Blind is just a subset but looking at the high TCs here, I wonder if the average H1b is someone earning low wages and recruited through an IT consulting firm
OP: my estimate : 15% of these H1B’s might be qualified talent and high probability that remaining 85% can be filled by local talent (if h1b adjudicators does their job properly). The real problem is USCIS h1b adjudicators are not qualified enough to guage application merit & eligibility. FYI: I am on H1B
First of all, anybody who is discussing H-1B in terms of immigration is either clueless or is trying to deceive you. H-1B is a non-immigrant visa, "dual-intent" means only that its beneficiary can obtain this visa even while having immigration plans. "Having immigration plans" to "being an immigrant" is as same as "having plans to earn a million dollars" to "being a millionaire". The research this Noah Smith mentions is the kind of research that says that when people open umbrellas a rain usually starts. I.e. it's confusing cause and effect because the H-1Bs are being brought to mitigate wage growth not the wage is growing because of H-1Bs.
Yeah. Noah Smith sounds like a shill citing headlines that sound significant but prove nothing.
I am on H1B for over a decade. I just read the first para where Noah is advocating for H1B and not green cards. Knew the rest was just fluff. TL;DR. Here is an eye-opening article from March 2000. It’s by CIS who claim to be pro-immigrant but I don’t think so. Anyway, the article is titled “Indefinitely Temporary”. For those that haven’t woken up that this GC backlog is by design, read this two decade old article, right around when AC21 came out. Here is an excerpt: “Proponents of this guest worker program who argue that these workers should be admitted because of current economic conditions should be asked 1) why the legislation provides temporary visas rather than green cards, and 2) if and when economic conditions change, do they propose to expel these temporary workers from the United States?” https://cis.org/Report/Senate-Boost-HighTech-Guest-Workers
Precisely the problem. It's interesting that everyone is fighting for the H1B program and expanding it but there is no interest in most of those groups to actually provide a path to citizenship or permanent residency.
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