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> Have you been fired in favor of foreign workers? 1) I work at a large company everyone in the US has heard of. When I walk in the public areas of the compan

> Have you been fired in favor of foreign workers? 1) I work at a large company everyone in the US has heard of. When I walk in the public areas of the company or at lunch, it looks like we are based in Mumbai. There is no "diversity", it's one country in particular, which is India. (Funnily enough, this demographic isn't reflected in management) 2) I overheard the 4th level (above me) manager complaining to another manager that his department (he oversees the whole floor, let's say a bit under 100 employees) has 30+ open reqs, and HR has only given him a few resumes (unknown what time period this refers to). The last interview I gave was to an H1B who had an audio link in his earbuds to someone who feed him answers to my technical questions. 3) I have 20 years experience, yet this job pays the same amount I was making 10 years ago. There is effectively zero negotiation for salaries. They will happily let you go vs bargain. 4) A previous mega-corp I worked for, GE Healthcare in Wisconsin, looked like India on campus. Utter lack of diversity. I recently got a job solicitation from an Indian recruiter for $40/hr for C++ development at this location. I think it's very clear that the cat's out of the bag about how to evade high-paying tech salaries. Set the parameters to discourage Americans from hiring, create a bottleneck so that your open reqs last longer, then use their extra-legal powers (unfettered access to congresspeople) to claim they are falling behind profitability, but if they just had those wonderful H1Bs everything will be ok.

vbi8iBEX 2y ago
> how to evade high-paying tech salaries. Set the parameters to discourage Americans from hiring, create a bottleneck so that your open reqs last longer, then use their extra-legal powers (unfettered access to congresspeople) to claim they are falling behind profitability, but if they just had those wonderful H1Bs everything will be ok. Yes that's what it seems to me based on many of the things I've read (not in this thread)
gaws 2y ago
> The last interview I gave was to an H1B who had an audio link in his earbuds to someone who feed him answers to my technical questions. How did you detect that?
- gosub100 2y ago
  he would repeat each and every question I asked, word for word. In attempt to give his researcher more time to google the question or think.
scottiescottie 2y ago
Do any of your real life friends accuse you of racism? Do you find that Indian managers hire their own? I'm assuming you're not Indian. I applied to FedEx affiliated company for SWE, and everyone except upper management was Indian. I was shocked.
- gosub100 2y ago
  I haven't been accused of being racist by anyone I know (especially not for pointing out a lack of diversity). I haven't experienced any Indian managers hiring their own, but I've only had one Indian manager. That isn't really a concern for me; small amounts of prejudice are to be expected, and if they grow to large-enough proportions they can be proven in court and adjudicated. What concerns me is a systemic trend to cut off US citizens' ability to move up economically. Incidentally, there is a completely orthogonal concern that almost nobody is aware of: that Indian children are essentially being forced to study tech or medicine in order to get high-paying jobs in the west. This essentially erases their culture and robs the children of any freedom of identity. From single-digit ages they are being forced (under threat of discipline) to provide economic security for their parents. That is sickening.
  - aunlead 2y ago
    > This essentially erases their culture and robs the children of any freedom of identity. From single-digit ages they are being forced (under threat of discipline) to provide economic security for their parents. That is sickening. What are you referring to here? Care to share some sources?
    - gosub100 2y ago
      American children have the freedom to pursue their interests. Indian children are not afforded the same freedom.

vbi8iBEX 2y ago

> how to evade high-paying tech salaries. Set the parameters to discourage Americans from hiring, create a bottleneck so that your open reqs last longer, then use their extra-legal powers (unfettered access to congresspeople) to claim they are falling behind profitability, but if they just had those wonderful H1Bs everything will be ok. Yes that's what it seems to me based on many of the things I've read (not in this thread)

gaws 2y ago

> The last interview I gave was to an H1B who had an audio link in his earbuds to someone who feed him answers to my technical questions. How did you detect that?

gosub100 2y ago
he would repeat each and every question I asked, word for word. In attempt to give his researcher more time to google the question or think.

scottiescottie 2y ago

Do any of your real life friends accuse you of racism? Do you find that Indian managers hire their own? I'm assuming you're not Indian. I applied to FedEx affiliated company for SWE, and everyone except upper management was Indian. I was shocked.

gosub100 2y ago
I haven't been accused of being racist by anyone I know (especially not for pointing out a lack of diversity). I haven't experienced any Indian managers hiring their own, but I've only had one Indian manager. That isn't really a concern for me; small amounts of prejudice are to be expected, and if they grow to large-enough proportions they can be proven in court and adjudicated. What concerns me is a systemic trend to cut off US citizens' ability to move up economically. Incidentally, there is a completely orthogonal concern that almost nobody is aware of: that Indian children are essentially being forced to study tech or medicine in order to get high-paying jobs in the west. This essentially erases their culture and robs the children of any freedom of identity. From single-digit ages they are being forced (under threat of discipline) to provide economic security for their parents. That is sickening.
- aunlead 2y ago
  > This essentially erases their culture and robs the children of any freedom of identity. From single-digit ages they are being forced (under threat of discipline) to provide economic security for their parents. That is sickening. What are you referring to here? Care to share some sources?
  - gosub100 2y ago
    American children have the freedom to pursue their interests. Indian children are not afforded the same freedom.