Coming from someone in IT that has worked at multiple large US private corps. This is no doubt common place and the norm. I think if you took someone from any other job and dropped them into one of these roles, they'd be like "wtf is going on, where am I and how is this legal?"
The vast majority of Indians on H1B visas I've met and worked with are very kind, respectful and in most cases generally conservative people. It's just so bizarre living in a typical American suburb then you go into work and 50+% of your floor is full of Indians on visas.
The company imports them into the US to work locally, underpays them (which is still a TON for what they'd receive in India) putting American's out of work. It blows my mind how this is allowed at such a massive scale. Can't blame the H1B's because I'd probably be doing the same if I were in their shoes, like winning the jackpot.
Honestly most H1B's are qualified and can do the work at the same level (depends though), just for a large discount. If you're a corp and money is your bottom line, you'll definitely be pushing for H1B's because you'll save money without sacrificing product while being COMPLETELY legal.
While on a small team (at a large US corp) I've had upper management saying "We can get 5 Indian guys, doing the same work as the two (US persons) and still cut costs." We had to justify why we wanted to keep the US persons. Gotta change the policy.
Fro my experience they just have terrible English, the situation can be extreme frustrating. It's something you adapt to, especially if more than half the work force speaks broken English. You catch yourself talking, explaining things in broken, simplistic English so they understand. (which sounds like a skit from The Office lol)
I worked on the engineering side of things, so we never dealt with customers, just each other (and maybe to collab w/ other teams). Makes explaining complex functions challenging
The really sad part is that a lot of times they're actually paid quite well and companies could arguably get US workers for less. The motivation isn't always saving money. Some companies really just seem to want compliant workers, or prefer to not hire Americans.
IIRC H1B salary info can be accessed publicly. Or I may be getting confused from when I was on that job, the salaries being public internally. Anyways, the few I looked over seemed to be higher than I expected. Not sure if it covered other contracting/visa costs but they were competitive.
Thing is, most I've met are qualified or overqualified. This doesn't mean they should be replacing US jobs from a US company by importing workers (I'm saying this in general, not to you). I get why it's specific to IT, but I always mention to my buddies in other careers to image the situation from their standpoint....
There is probably a welder in India that is equal or better than you, why not H1B him/her fly them over here and fire you to take your position? Since it's apparently ok to hire anyone on the planet for to work in the US for US companies, why not H1B truck drivers? H1B all the financing for a company? All the nurses in US hospitals, just replace them with H1B workers, they have the same skill-set why not?
Coming from someone in IT that has worked at multiple large US private corps. This is no doubt common place and the norm. I think if you took someone from any other job and dropped them into one of these roles, they'd be like "wtf is going on, where am I and how is this legal?"
The vast majority of Indians on H1B visas I've met and worked with are very kind, respectful and in most cases generally conservative people. It's just so bizarre living in a typical American suburb then you go into work and 50+% of your floor is full of Indians on visas.
The company imports them into the US to work locally, underpays them (which is still a TON for what they'd receive in India) putting American's out of work. It blows my mind how this is allowed at such a massive scale. Can't blame the H1B's because I'd probably be doing the same if I were in their shoes, like winning the jackpot.
Honestly most H1B's are qualified and can do the work at the same level (depends though), just for a large discount. If you're a corp and money is your bottom line, you'll definitely be pushing for H1B's because you'll save money without sacrificing product while being COMPLETELY legal.
While on a small team (at a large US corp) I've had upper management saying "We can get 5 Indian guys, doing the same work as the two (US persons) and still cut costs." We had to justify why we wanted to keep the US persons. Gotta change the policy.
Fro my experience they just have terrible English, the situation can be extreme frustrating. It's something you adapt to, especially if more than half the work force speaks broken English. You catch yourself talking, explaining things in broken, simplistic English so they understand. (which sounds like a skit from The Office lol)
I worked on the engineering side of things, so we never dealt with customers, just each other (and maybe to collab w/ other teams). Makes explaining complex functions challenging
The really sad part is that a lot of times they're actually paid quite well and companies could arguably get US workers for less. The motivation isn't always saving money. Some companies really just seem to want compliant workers, or prefer to not hire Americans.
IIRC H1B salary info can be accessed publicly. Or I may be getting confused from when I was on that job, the salaries being public internally. Anyways, the few I looked over seemed to be higher than I expected. Not sure if it covered other contracting/visa costs but they were competitive.
Thing is, most I've met are qualified or overqualified. This doesn't mean they should be replacing US jobs from a US company by importing workers (I'm saying this in general, not to you). I get why it's specific to IT, but I always mention to my buddies in other careers to image the situation from their standpoint....
There is probably a welder in India that is equal or better than you, why not H1B him/her fly them over here and fire you to take your position? Since it's apparently ok to hire anyone on the planet for to work in the US for US companies, why not H1B truck drivers? H1B all the financing for a company? All the nurses in US hospitals, just replace them with H1B workers, they have the same skill-set why not?
Read...Bellsouth saga. Employees forced to train their Indian replacements or not get their severance package.