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Yes and no. You get to hire PhDs and senior developers into entry level positions, with entry level pay, and then keep them there until they get a green card an
by m0zg 6y ago
Yes and no. You get to hire PhDs and senior developers into entry level positions, with entry level pay, and then keep them there until they get a green card and show you the middle finger. Glorified indentured servitude. And I say this as a former H1-B myself (sponsored by Microsoft). Once I got a green card (which, BTW, took 7 years), my career took off like a rocket. Elsewhere.
- sg47 6y agoExactly this. It really is glorified indentured servitude.
- mav3rick 6y agoIt is not in many cases. FAANGs pay similar or more to H1Bs. Maybe the local workers should work harder rather hide behind competition.
- m0zg 6y agoThey pay similar _at the levels where they are hired_. That's what the letter of law requires. They just hire them at lower levels to pay less. And where they _really_ want to save costs, they hire the typical Indian sweatshops which are full of H1Bs who are overworked and paid peanuts. That's why the overall number of people working at e.g. Microsoft or Google can be nearly double their FTE count.
- mav3rick 6y agoMany grads graduate from top tier universities and get the same level as their American counterparts. Please have some respect for the law abiding students, who pay full tuition and taxes only to get shit on on this forum and by the President and his phonies.
- sg47 6y agoSorry, that's just not correct. Microsoft or Google does not intentionally try to hire people at lower levels based on their immigration status. They do outsource some IT work to companies like Infosys or TCS which are Indian sweatshops but not their FTEs.
- mav3rick 6y agoClearly a biased and uneducated take.
- sjg007 6y agoHonestly it takes an American 7 years for a career to take off.