It’s definitely true that Indians on visa are a lot more slaved to visas and employers than other folks due to us immigration policy. Basically no path to green card for Indians (anywhere from 10 years to 150) , but you can get green card in <1 year for anyone else
How exactly did you make the jump between your two paragraphs baffles me.
@EPAM What's baffling about that connection, perfectly logical. Are you playing dumb or really dumb?
If you're on H-1B and you're a software engineer at Facebook, surely you can quit and transfer your H-1B to another company if you're being exploited. No one should be abused at work, but I don't think people can say that it was being on H-1B that made them unable to escape the abuse.
True that, it is difficult but doable.
Doable but I think techlead's point is, if you are putting in 12 hours/day to try not getting fired, depressed and feeling low, it would be hard. It's not like he could have taken 3-6 months off to unwind. Depression could really bring one down.
What’s he saying (tl;dw version)
A whole lotta Nothing
Do you guys know the meaning of slavery? The comparison is appalling... slavery was a real thing and not that long ago.
Terrible regardless. How can a voluntary and highly paid job be even remotely related to slavery. I'm not disagreeing that work visas are not misleading or could be improved at all but the comparison to slavery is insane and terrible to me. Again slavery was very real and horrific and on no way even close to the same ballpark.
Slavery from the past doesnt have to be compared to the present to justify the current state. The modern day slavery is enticing and restrictions on mobility with benefits is a big deal and its a wide scale issue.
People want high pay and still complain about wlb. Lol.
Yeah, I like my high TC so I know I have to work for it. I could always move to somewhere cheap and kick back and relax if I wanted to. But, FB is a mixed bag. Some teams/people have decent WLB, for others it's bad and because of the "impact" culture, it's really hard to improve things. Stuff keeps falling over but fixing that doesn't have the same impact as launching a new feature, so the technical debt continues to accumulate. As an engineer who takes pride in my work and quality, FB is not inspiring.
As a visa holder myself I dont agree with all of what he is saying but I have seen instances of managers taking advantage of the situation, hell I have myself been in a situation couple of times where I had to do overtime work. But I dont agree with his cheap labor remark, my TC with 1 yoe is 160k right out of college. Its not cheap labor package as far as I am concerned.
I agree with that even though there might be places who abuse the system as cheap labor like consultancies and vendors, its not like all of the immigrants are cheap labor displacing lical talents.
So that is good for the economy right, more busnesses and startups means more jobs for ppl. Not everyone is going to create a new company and be a millionaire and billionaire, so its a win win right. Where is the cheap labor in the picture, btw have u seen the startup salaries everyone pays above 100k these days which is well above the median.