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R&D is exactly who H1B is supposed to be for - ie. highly skilled, specialized, and educated positions. Not regular SE jobs. If you look at your Googles, your
by Alupis 3y ago
R&D is exactly who H1B is supposed to be for - ie. highly skilled, specialized, and educated positions. Not regular SE jobs.
If you look at your Googles, your Facebooks, your Microsofts, you will find a glut of H1B's working regular SE jobs, such as maintenance and feature development. That's exactly who H1B's are not supposed to be for - and that is the issue.
Mega corps laying off huge engineering teams while simultaneously importing more H1B's tells you everything you need to know. Follow the money, as they say.
- slt2021 3y agoyou are wrong because H-1Bs pay just as much as regular SWE jobs by law (companies file LCA)
- Alupis 3y agoThis thread is about suppressing wages...
- slt2021 3y agoHow is paying the same == suppressing?
- jimcsharp 3y agoBecause you'd have to pay more to attract somebody local who's happy at another company.
- howinteresting 3y agoYou understand that immigration is fundamentally different from standard supply and demand? Immigrants create both supply and demand. Producing more eggs doesn't increase the demand for eggs.
- JustLurking2022 3y agoGuarantee it's below average at most outsourcing firms. They may play games like advertising a position as a "junior engineer" but require 10 years of experience and then bill clients for a senior engineer but, knowing the billing rates for several vendors, there's absolutely no way they pay market rates.
- slt2021 3y agoI am all for cracking down on abusers and scammers, especially body shops. but it is not the reason to get rid of the entirety of H-1B program, as some people advocate here.
- sokoloff 3y agoMost companies call a significant amount of their SWE work as R&D. R&D isn’t always “inventing totally new things” but rather closer to “an investment of resources in which there is some amount of novelty and for which the outcome is uncertain”. A lot of SWE qualifies for that, even software that we’d consider fairly mundane and un-exciting.
- laurencerowe 3y agoH-1B is for regular skilled immigration, those with bachelors degrees or equivalent, e.g. regular software engineer jobs. For more highly skilled, specialized, and educated positions there exist O-1, EB-1, and EB-2 NIW visas.