Umm, no. If you've worked at Facebook/Amazon/Google, you'd know that is not true. They do not prefer H1-Bs over citizens. They simply hire people who pass inter

Umm, no. If you've worked at Facebook/Amazon/Google, you'd know that is not true. They do not prefer H1-Bs over citizens. They simply hire people who pass interviews. Also, what makes you think the industry's smartest people aren't working at these companies? I'd say on the contrary, they have the smartest folk in the CS industry at these companies.