nitesh_btc on Nostr: The H1B system today is like tax laws for rich people. When there are loop holes, it ...
The H1B system today is like tax laws for rich people. When there are loop holes, it gets abused. The system was broken for a very long time starting with the lottery process. The people were never the problem, the system was.
One other thing that isn't talked about much is how a lot of American companies have stopped doing in-house hiring of engineers but instead started outsourcing almost all projects to companies like TCS, Infosys, Accenture and Cognizant who have massive bases in India and naturally these companies bring in thousands of workers on H1B and underpaying them or simply use the offshore model.
From my understanding the reason companies started going this route is because hiring in general is hard and imagine hiring 25-30 engineers to do various things for a single project but then also have them on payroll for a long time even after the product is ready because firing isn't easy either. So companies just pay extra to outsource all this work to these software services companies.
One other thing that isn't talked about much is how a lot of American companies have stopped doing in-house hiring of engineers but instead started outsourcing almost all projects to companies like TCS, Infosys, Accenture and Cognizant who have massive bases in India and naturally these companies bring in thousands of workers on H1B and underpaying them or simply use the offshore model.
From my understanding the reason companies started going this route is because hiring in general is hard and imagine hiring 25-30 engineers to do various things for a single project but then also have them on payroll for a long time even after the product is ready because firing isn't easy either. So companies just pay extra to outsource all this work to these software services companies.