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Two things seem worth mentioning: 1. The usual suspects that petition Congress for more H1-B visas seem to be paying their employees at or above market. 2. Se
by arachnids 11y ago
Two things seem worth mentioning:
1. The usual suspects that petition Congress for more H1-B visas seem to be paying their employees at or above market.
2. Several Indian IT body shops are spamming the process, vastly reducing the effective slots available for the group above. Infosys, for example filed several applications for "Systems Engineers", whatever that means, in San Francisco, paying 74k$[1]
Searching by title, Infosys seems to be the only company hiring people for the role, I wonder prevailing wage determination works in these cases :-) [2]
[1] http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=INFOSYS+LIMITED&job=SYSTEMS+ENGINEER+-+US&city=SAN+FRANCISCO&year=2015 http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=INFOSYS+LIMITED&job=SYSTEMS...
[2] http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=SYSTEMS+ENGINEER+-+US&city=&year=2015 http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=SYSTEMS+ENGINEER+-+US&...
- robin__j 11y agoFWIW, Systems Engineer is the designation for entry level engineers at Infosys. Since it's a service company with engineers working on all sorts of techs it doesn't really make sense calling those positions Java Dev or Web Dev or whatever.
- mathattack 11y agoOn point 1 - you have to pay at or above market or you don't get the H1B. So part of the game that companies play is defining the role properly to overpay the title but underpay the experience you are getting. (And defining the job description in a way that is tough to find locally) There was a time on Wall Street that you could identify the false postings based on where the resumes were to be sent.