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If you want to hire an H1B and claim there is no American to do that job, what about the 30k employees you just laid off? None of them can do the software engin
by reducesuffering 6mo ago
If you want to hire an H1B and claim there is no American to do that job, what about the 30k employees you just laid off? None of them can do the software engineering, sales, HR, etc. that a company like Oracle works on 99% of the time? It's quite schizophrenic for basic engineering companies like Oracle, Cisco, eBay, Paypal, etc. to claim there are no Americans to do the software engineering they require after they lay off thousands and there are millions of American software engineers looking for work.
- marcher 6mo agoSchizophrenic?
- dominotw 6mo agolots ppl are confused in this comment section. h1b doesnt not require looking for a local first.
- prerok 6mo agoSorry what? Yes, they do. Second-hand knowledge, though.
- sunnyps 6mo agoNo, the requirement is that the job is for a speciality occupation and that the H1B be paid the prevailing wage for that job, not that there was an attempt to hire locally first. For an I-140 PERM (employment based green card) however the requirement is that there was an effort made to hire locally first. Most people on HN are uninformed about this, well actually uninformed in general.
- remarkEon 6mo agoThe jobs filled via H-1B are not “specialty” positions, everyone knows this. I know that’s what the visa is ostensibly supposed to be used for, but it’s a very silly thing to pretend at this stage. I agree that many are uninformed on this, and my friends who don’t work in tech think someone on an H-1B visa is like a “particle physics PhD” or something, and not “database administrator” or “backend engineer”.
- sunnyps 6mo agoWell, it doesn't matter what your friends think about what a "speciality occupation" is. What matters is what USCIS and DOL consider a speciality occupation - the "speciality" is that it requires specialized knowledge and training which jobs in software development and even database administration would most certainly qualify for. From https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/h-1b-specialty-occupations https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/h-1b-spec...: > The occupation requires: > Theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge; and > Attainment of a bachelor's or higher degree in a directly related* specific specialty (or its equivalent) as a minimum for entry into the occupation in the United States.
- prerok 6mo agoAh, that was it then. The person in question was probably filing for that instead of trying to get another H1B. Thank you for clarifying!
- motbus3 6mo agoRead this guy comment before taking it to this level https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pj_mukh https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pj_mukh
- nobodyandproud 6mo ago[flagged]