Feels unreal right now. H1Bs in my team weren’t laid off while I was. I thought the point of H1B was to hire overseas workers temporarily when employers couldn’t obtain qualified American workers for the job? From: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b “The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorized to work in the United States.” There is no shortage. The job market is brutal with 1000s of applicants per job. Do we even need H1B anymore?
Many folks here are on that visa and won’t give you support, but don’t discredit yourself. It’s possible they’re holding onto h1b due to cost of hiring them until they know they have to let them go. That said, seek employment where h1b isn’t prioritized if possible. Good luck!
Talk to your representative — congress personnels. Do something to fix the problem. Complaining is no use
Sure that’s a goal of the h1b program, but it’s not a requirement for there not to be an American that could do the job. That part doesn’t come into play until you get to permanent residency applications. Either these h1bs are better at their jobs than you are, or the manager is h1b and playing favorites. Which do you think it is?
Always nepotism.
We 100% don't and it has to stop.
Seriously ! All those H1Bs just hoarding up all the jobs at “sigma computing”
BuT hOw dOeS tHiS aFfecT yoU pErSonAllY?!?
It just means that they didn't have immigration status in their spreadsheet, which would be insane to have in your spreadsheet from a legal risk perspective. It's messed up, but it's not insane.
Are you sure your work performance is better than the H1Bs? Note that we have no idea what your situation is like.
companies don’t discriminate on the basis of immigration status.
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OP doesn’t want to acknowledge his/her incompetence
Indeed !
If they kill H1B the jobs will be outsourced to the superior engineers elsewhere. The quality of Boeing software improved dramatically when they outsourced the implementation.
Why don't they do that now and save the salary and h1b expense? They don't need to kill the h1b to outsource the job lol
Some are lol. It’s worth pointing out that my post wasn’t a dig on any foreign born engineers. Truly there are some really great engineers that are foreign born, and some that are utter shit. Same as native born.
May be you were not qualified and that’s why they laid you off? 🤔
I’m sure there is a laid off American somewhere, with the same skillset as you, who can replace you For e.g a laid off Googler can easily replace you at Amazon
Of coarse he is incompetent or who else would lose job to bunch of “low paying unskilled workers from third world countries” right? This is the most common argument these pro far right idiots keep pivoting towards but completely forget if the immigrants were that bad how come you lose your job to them 😂