All true. I get called all the time by recruiters with phony intent. They offer $25/hr for a high-level engineering contract position. It is obvious what their game is.
I also see tons of bullshit job descriptions on DICE and elsewhere. On semi-legit ones, I apply and get no reply all too often.
ALL recruiters these days are Indian (1 in 500 ever is not) and they are generally discriminatory biased to Indians.
Oddly, maybe 10-15% of jobs appear to be based in New Jersey, requiring candidate to reside there. wtf. I mean NJ is the world capitol of software development, and really most of these jobs end up offshore.
So this is kind of true but Ive hired a few H1b employees before and here is some context.
It's a little hard to under pay. The labor board assigns minimum salaries to certain positions that you must meet. I actually had to give a guy a raise to keep him on staff because the labor board said he wasn't paid enough for his position. (he wasn't out of pay range for the team, but maybe we were just cheap assholes)
What really sucked the most in my opinion was if they got let go or fired they had something like 48 hours to get out of the country if they couldn't find another sponsored position.
Imagine a guy with a wife and two kids, both in school, and pretty well established in the community then forced to uproot in 2 days. Seems kind of crazy. That part felt slave-like to me. They were so worried about the repercussions of losing their job, they never said no and worked their asses off.
That being said, all my sponsored employees eventually got residency status and stuck around because it wasn't a bad place to work.
PS I am aware of the consulting companies who act as middle men and exploit H1b contract labor. We hired our workers directly.
All true. I get called all the time by recruiters with phony intent. They offer $25/hr for a high-level engineering contract position. It is obvious what their game is.
I also see tons of bullshit job descriptions on DICE and elsewhere. On semi-legit ones, I apply and get no reply all too often.
ALL recruiters these days are Indian (1 in 500 ever is not) and they are generally discriminatory biased to Indians.
Oddly, maybe 10-15% of jobs appear to be based in New Jersey, requiring candidate to reside there. wtf. I mean NJ is the world capitol of software development, and really most of these jobs end up offshore.
Good post, good to see you talk about important shit.
The game is a little different in construction except for the slave labor - housing part.
It's the 3rd tier subcontractor that employs the "undocumented workers". I can't prove it, but pretty sure it's cartel money laundering at work
So this is kind of true but Ive hired a few H1b employees before and here is some context.
It's a little hard to under pay. The labor board assigns minimum salaries to certain positions that you must meet. I actually had to give a guy a raise to keep him on staff because the labor board said he wasn't paid enough for his position. (he wasn't out of pay range for the team, but maybe we were just cheap assholes)
What really sucked the most in my opinion was if they got let go or fired they had something like 48 hours to get out of the country if they couldn't find another sponsored position.
Imagine a guy with a wife and two kids, both in school, and pretty well established in the community then forced to uproot in 2 days. Seems kind of crazy. That part felt slave-like to me. They were so worried about the repercussions of losing their job, they never said no and worked their asses off.
That being said, all my sponsored employees eventually got residency status and stuck around because it wasn't a bad place to work.
PS I am aware of the consulting companies who act as middle men and exploit H1b contract labor. We hired our workers directly.