I am a white male. When I graduated college with a relatively high GPA... I was interviewed by panels full of foreign nationals. I grew up in the bay and I felt discriminated against. I moved out of the bay but I see the same going on out here now too.
Tech companies use Indian firms to choose ‘qualified’ (unskilled, poorly educated) workers for them. They do not accurately assess skills...
Then they bring them over and train them for months (google trains them for 9 months, as if they knew nothing)... they could be doing this with fresh college or even high school grads....but they choose foreign labor to suppress wages.
"With the debate over immigration to the U.S. as fiery as ever, a new analysis suggests that Silicon Valley would be lost without foreign-born technology workers."
hahah ya that's why they're hiring all those indians with fake degrees..they can't find enough americans with fake degrees.
Tech companies all like to complain that "they can't find enough americans". Bullshit. The shortage of american engineering graduates is a problem big tech has actually made themselves - by importing foreign H-1Bs workers.
Young americans can see that big tech likes to replace experienced engineers with H1-B's workers (and in some cases make them train the replacements). And they (correctly) think: "Why should I bother with a difficult-to-get degree like Comp Sci or Electrical Engineering when I can be replaced with a cheap H1B? Just to make the twatter CEO a billionare? No thanks!"
And what big tech really means when they say "we can't find enough americans" is "we can't find enough americans CHEAP enough". They use H-1B workers to keep salaries down. But if engineering salaries rose to what competitive wages should be without imported H-1B workers, just think how many more young americans would get STEM degrees: shortage solved!
Cry me a river, Big Tech. You did this to yourselves.
H-1B is only part of it. The other part is outsourcing. I've worked in IT for 20 years, and every Company I've worked at contracted cheap Indian labor from India, to provide some level of software development or support, or customer support. There's also ton of jobs outsourced, like customer support, to India, Philippines, and China, and probably more. So H-1B is only X % of the "Tech" jobs that are being given to foreigners.
Yeap. Been there,
Done that, hated it. Hate the whole H1b mafia .
Hope the h1bs realize that they are being exploited and then they demand reparations. It will be sweet justice
I am a white male. When I graduated college with a relatively high GPA... I was interviewed by panels full of foreign nationals. I grew up in the bay and I felt discriminated against. I moved out of the bay but I see the same going on out here now too.
Tech companies use Indian firms to choose ‘qualified’ (unskilled, poorly educated) workers for them. They do not accurately assess skills... Then they bring them over and train them for months (google trains them for 9 months, as if they knew nothing)... they could be doing this with fresh college or even high school grads....but they choose foreign labor to suppress wages.
This is what the writer took out of the stats..
"With the debate over immigration to the U.S. as fiery as ever, a new analysis suggests that Silicon Valley would be lost without foreign-born technology workers."
hahah ya that's why they're hiring all those indians with fake degrees..they can't find enough americans with fake degrees.
Am a hiring manager at a big tech firm.
Tech companies all like to complain that "they can't find enough americans". Bullshit. The shortage of american engineering graduates is a problem big tech has actually made themselves - by importing foreign H-1Bs workers.
Young americans can see that big tech likes to replace experienced engineers with H1-B's workers (and in some cases make them train the replacements). And they (correctly) think: "Why should I bother with a difficult-to-get degree like Comp Sci or Electrical Engineering when I can be replaced with a cheap H1B? Just to make the twatter CEO a billionare? No thanks!"
And what big tech really means when they say "we can't find enough americans" is "we can't find enough americans CHEAP enough". They use H-1B workers to keep salaries down. But if engineering salaries rose to what competitive wages should be without imported H-1B workers, just think how many more young americans would get STEM degrees: shortage solved!
Cry me a river, Big Tech. You did this to yourselves.
1% of Valley techies are black women.
H-1B is only part of it. The other part is outsourcing. I've worked in IT for 20 years, and every Company I've worked at contracted cheap Indian labor from India, to provide some level of software development or support, or customer support. There's also ton of jobs outsourced, like customer support, to India, Philippines, and China, and probably more. So H-1B is only X % of the "Tech" jobs that are being given to foreigners.
Yeap. Been there, Done that, hated it. Hate the whole H1b mafia . Hope the h1bs realize that they are being exploited and then they demand reparations. It will be sweet justice