Tech layoffs have made it so there are plenty of highly qualified citizens and green card holders looking for work. So why would any company sponsor someone's visa over giving the job to a citizen? I ask this on a H1B. But I'm worried I will be laid off and replaced with a permanent resident or citizen. TC:250 #tech #visa #hiring #layoffs
Maybe Op shud learn how to run a business
Laid off H1Bs still need sponsorship. Hiring managers do not know or care about status.
Before the hiring manager even gets involved, wouldn't the Visa holders be filtered out?
This. We as managers do not know or cannot ask for visa status during interviews
Because citizens, green card holders can always quit without thinking where as someone on h1b is always worried about the 60 day rule and would suck up and work irrespective of what someone did to them 🙄
60 day rule?
Reading some of the responses, looks like being citizens or permanent residents is now a bad thing? Wow.
I wouldn’t say its bad. But every company that can afford to sponsor definitely prefers h1bs. What kind of company doesn’t prefer workers that are more exploitable? In reality i doubt they give a boost to h1b over citizens, but its certainly a level playing field unlike in other countries where being a citizen gives you an advantage in hiring processes
Because h1bs can be exploited.
Work 24/7 or get deported. Cruel!
For the same reason that companies that laid off continued to do some hiring. It’s not some tap that you want to completely shut off because the economic situation is temporary and turning on the tap may not be that easy.
This ☝️☝️
Visa holders are cheaper and effectively owned by the company for many years with the current wait time for a green card. Including total comp, I’m paid 6 figures less than my American or green card holding peers with no difference in tenure or performance and you bet that I feel bitter about it but there’s nothing I can do, Meta owns me.
Visa holders in Tech are not cheaper. 🙄 I am not sure if there is any obvious pay disparity. Most HMs don't know immigration status and comp is noy decided that way. Negotiate or move to increase TC.
Well you can always negotiate when moving to a different company, so I don't necessarily think we are cheaper, but with the unemployment rules being the way they are for people on a Visa, we don't have as much freedom to move, so I guess they use that as leverage against us
Start a company and find out :)
Hiring H1B’s is not easy and cost a lot of money for a company, leads me to concluded the skills the person with the H1B have are better then the person with citizenship. Having been a tech recruiter most companies will not sponsor H1Bs and only hire H1B as a last resort.
You are quite opposite
That's definitely not the case though. Especially with all these layoffs from top companies
Lobbyist, Indian consulting agency, immigration lawyers and consulting firm, big tech to get cheap labor …
Lol. You're so delusional.
No one is lobbying tech companies to hire foreign employees