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Demand for the visas far exceeds the 85,000 cap, meaning that the government has to ration them to firms by lottery. Indian outsourcing firms like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which provides low-cost back-office services, are now the biggest employers of H-1B workers. Analysing data compiled by Théo Négri of jobsintech.io, The Economist found that between 2012 and 2015 the three biggest Indian outsourcing firms—TCS, Wipro and Infosys—submitted over 150,000 visa applications for positions that paid a median salary of $69,500. In contrast, America's five biggest tech firms—Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft—submitted just 31,000 applications, and proposed to pay their workers a median salary of $117,000.
The Economist reassures us that, "Given that the unemployment rate for college graduates sits at 2.5%, it is fair to say that most native workers displaced by H-1Bs land on their feet."
(Score: 1) by a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- on Friday April 21 2017, @05:23PM
I too have gotten a slew of calls from sub-contractors to wipro, infosys, cognizant and l&t. The pattern is eerily similar - they start by insisting that market rate is not available. After I refuse the position they magically come up with marketrate for the position or stop calling in about half the cases. In some cases they have average to no-technical interview but oddly seemed panicked to hire with "one week". I received a job offer within two days after a single interview in which the contracting firm told the hiring manager I had been "technically vetted" when no such vetting had occurred. I declined the position.
Sloppy form processing, incorrect titles, demands for full birth dates, salary histories, requests for copies of social security and drivers licenses, and other irregular practices seem common (I provide my phone area code for my birthdate and the last four digits of the same for my "social security" number, I decline all requests for copies of my documents).
I have no idea what's going on, but I smell fear and panic and I think thousands of (American) jobs may be coming back real soon now.
Why do we keep buying and using products from companies like google, apple, and facebook when they clearly want to send our jobs away? These companies are already super-rich and I feel that it's likely many of those dollars in their bank accounts came straight from our own pockets.
Why subsidize multi-billion dollar corporations with our own salaries?
I dislike Trumps xeno/racism but his position on h1b couldn't be more correct. Even Bernie agrees.
https://newrepublic.com/article/114112/anonymouth-linguistic-tool-might-have-helped-jk-rowling