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My only experience with H1b was when I worked at Amazon. Lots of pressure to come in on the weekend. I certainly wasn't going to sacrifice my weekends. I'd jus
by wild_preference 8y ago
My only experience with H1b was when I worked at Amazon.
Lots of pressure to come in on the weekend. I certainly wasn't going to sacrifice my weekends. I'd just tell them no. I could work somewhere else.
But the H1b guys I worked with from India constantly caved to the guilt. If they were to lose the job, they'd have to pack up their entire life and go back to India to try again.
Easy high-skill exploitation.
- chapium 8y agoWhen I work with our offices in India, the teams there are incredibly hard workers. We've had issues with quality control of code, etc now and then however, there are a lot of really top notch programmers pulling hours to meet the goals of an office remote to them. Its honestly incredible. I think there is a different workplace culture in India. Hard work does not always equate to quality work, occasionally some really braindead stuff comes out that someone slogged through. If I saw H1B's coming in on weekends, I think its partly cultural and they might also just be younger and have less weekend commitments in general. On the flip side, if you lose your H1B status you are pretty screwed, so the company has you by the balls and tends to pass you up for promotion.
- pishpash 8y agoIt affects you too though, as the industry norm is noticeably skewing toward the expected overtime model even more so than before.