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As someone who worked at Accenture, I'm not sure how to prove it? It was literally the entire business model. It was made quite clear to me, as an American hi
by ep103 10y ago
As someone who worked at Accenture, I'm not sure how to prove it? It was literally the entire business model. It was made quite clear to me, as an American hire, that I was a white american face to slap onto projects to talk to clients, and to act as educated engineering quality control / failsafe, for all work done in India or by Indians that they would fly into the US and rotate according to whatever the legal requirements were for each individual.
When I left, they had completely stopped hiring in America all together. Instead, they were focusing on hiring in Monterey, Mexico. When I asked how they were going to get these new "developers" to work on stateside projects, I got to learn about the logistics of literally buying and driving school buses full of 'developers' over the US - Mexican border on a weekly basis.
- mikereilly01 10y agoIt doesn't necessarily sound like any of this is H1B related, it's just job outsourcing. I'm not saying it isn't a problem in it's own, but it's not relevant here. If they were indeed hiring Indian workers on H1Bs, and paying them less than their counterparts, then we can complain about that. Outsourcing != H1B problems. Also, anecdotal, but the work I shipped out to India when working for KPMG was absolutely not work I wanted to be doing and being able to send it to colleagues in India to complete was pretty nice from my admittedly small world view at the time.
- ep103 10y agoH1B was just another way to outsource. The ran entire departments for some companies. And at those departments, the IT for would be a mix of people offshore and H1Bs that constantly rotated back and forth between the two countries.