Lots of companies are getting around the H1B cap by setting up satellite offices at universities, since they are cap exempt. You are an employee of the universi

Lots of companies are getting around the H1B cap by setting up satellite offices at universities, since they are cap exempt. You are an employee of the university but all work is directed and owned by the company. Universities pay you out of a grant, which looks good for deans etc. and they take a cut. Downside is you are typically in the "academic" pay scale, which is significantly lower than typical H1B industry software engineer pay scales. But then again scores of H1B discount themselves because they value so highly being on US soil, so it may not look like so much of a discount to you. CUNY is doing a program with an entrepreneurship bend, but the sponsors of the program have come right out and said it's a loophole around the cap to get engineers. I'd think this loophole would be closed but with the overwhelming support for expanding the H1B program I don't think that'll be the case no matter who ends up as POTUS or which party is in control of Congress.