As someone who recently worked in the US on an E-3, the opinions of the people in this thread are really not that bad. They're wrong, of course - companies who

As someone who recently worked in the US on an E-3, the opinions of the people in this thread are really not that bad. They're wrong, of course - companies who hand out $500k/yr to US workers don't underpay visa holders doing the same role. The reason high paying tech companies go international is because their US recruitment funnel is drying up to the point where it's cost-effective to recruit internationally even with the increased overhead. They're not underpaying visa holders, they're using them to avoid increasing domestic wages even higher or lowering their hiring standards, which are different things altogether.