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I want American businesses to look towards cultivating local talent first. I don't disagree with the desire to have "smart, hard working, talented people coming
by BitwiseFool 5y ago
I want American businesses to look towards cultivating local talent first. I don't disagree with the desire to have "smart, hard working, talented people coming to the US" but from my experience big companies use H1B's as a means of getting cheaper labor and having more power/leverage over the individual.
- a-and 5y agoWhat is your experience? I will admit I don't have much insight into WITCH. I've worked at and interviewed people at FAANGs for the past 5 years and the bar for hiring is the same.
- BitwiseFool 5y agoI worked for a large corporation that is not known for being particularly tech-oriented. Think traditional big business that has a lot of technology supporting it, but the product was not software. In my particular office, upwards of 60% of the people working there were either H1B or contractors managed by Wipro. There were plenty of job listings that looked appropriate for new graduates / people with less than 5 years of experience but these were rarely filled by non-temp/non-contractor/non-H1B folks. HR never went out of their way to recruit local talent and did the bare minimum to "post" the job. I sensed they made the jobs hard to find, but also wrote the postings in such a way that being unable to find an American willing to do the work was a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more Machiavellian managers realized they could overwork the H1B's because of how dependent they were on sponsorship.