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> And a lot of the proposed immigration changes won't actually reduce the price of these workers either. If anything, it's a power grab by large consulting comp
by vostok 10y ago
> And a lot of the proposed immigration changes won't actually reduce the price of these workers either. If anything, it's a power grab by large consulting companies and bigger software shops to be able to hire up the best talent, and just lay off the rest
Isn't it just the opposite? The large consulting companies are the ones paying these low wages. They submit a lot of applications and, because it's a pure lottery system, soak up a large portion of the available H1B visas.
This means that small, struggling companies like my own cannot hire H1Bs to get the talent that we desperately need. A higher wage floor or an auction system would mean that we would actually stand a chance at getting an H1B visa approved for the 1 hire that we need.
- djsumdog 10y agoDid you read the article in the link? That's pretty much what it says.
- vostok 10y agoThe article says the exact opposite. > However, I think what we’ll actually see are large companies in tech hubs like the bay area, Seattle, Chicago, New York and others, start to absorb the largest swatches of the immigrant talent pool, while shorting smaller companies and public sector jobs from the same access to skilled workers. I'm saying that, under the current system, large companies absorb the largest swatches of the immigrant talent pool. These large companies submit a huge number of visa applications for $60k and because of the lottery system, they get allocated on a pro-rata so many of their visas are approved. Under the proposed system, visas from small companies would have a much large chance of getting approved.