I did a contract at Align Technologies in their IT department requiring gathering data about their server configurations and some system support tasks. While I was there, management brought in H1Bs to replace the employees and get trained. VP of IT was an Indian bitch who'd wormed her way in. All the employees knew they were getting let go and they then would not cooperate with me. Rightfully so. My point is H1Bs are still being used as an anti-labor weapon by cheap bastards. And BTW, the H1Bs were having to room 4 to an apartment, as they were not being paid worth a damn by Tata.
I totally agree with you on L1s and am sorry you get static on this issue, it is real.
Google basically OWNs Mountain View and has been spreading its tentacles into Sunnyvale and parts of San Jose here in the SF South Bay region. Developers have built so many five or six story chicken coop apartment buildings here for the Indian workers, and lots of overpriced townhomes that get bought up by multigeneration Indians coming here to colonize. All working at Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple. Our streets are full of Indian food trucks (for the tech workers) competing with Mexican food trucks (for the illegals). I go to Costco and at times am the only white guy shopping there, honest to god.
No, not really. Most of what people actually see are, in fact, H1Bs. I have never encountered an L1 in my 25 years in tech. I've encountered probably thousands of H1Bs.
L1 must already have worked for the same company in another country for at least one year, and are essentially transferring to the U.S. This is what the massive consulting shops like InfoSys do, and to a much smaller degree Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and some accounting firms. Since these people have already worked for the company, they are not as often displacing people when they move here (though, yes, it does happen, and also happens indirectly by outsourcing to InfoSys and laying off your staff...but that's not really different from outsourcing to India but with the people onsite).
Both programs need to be restricted to a cap of something like 1,000 per year, instead of the hundreds of thousands that come in every year in the current programs combined.
I did a contract at Align Technologies in their IT department requiring gathering data about their server configurations and some system support tasks. While I was there, management brought in H1Bs to replace the employees and get trained. VP of IT was an Indian bitch who'd wormed her way in. All the employees knew they were getting let go and they then would not cooperate with me. Rightfully so. My point is H1Bs are still being used as an anti-labor weapon by cheap bastards. And BTW, the H1Bs were having to room 4 to an apartment, as they were not being paid worth a damn by Tata.
I totally agree with you on L1s and am sorry you get static on this issue, it is real.
Company housing, company stores? Geez, wonder where I've heard that before...
Google basically OWNs Mountain View and has been spreading its tentacles into Sunnyvale and parts of San Jose here in the SF South Bay region. Developers have built so many five or six story chicken coop apartment buildings here for the Indian workers, and lots of overpriced townhomes that get bought up by multigeneration Indians coming here to colonize. All working at Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple. Our streets are full of Indian food trucks (for the tech workers) competing with Mexican food trucks (for the illegals). I go to Costco and at times am the only white guy shopping there, honest to god.
The 65,000 H1B allocation for 2024 was exhausted in December.
No, not really. Most of what people actually see are, in fact, H1Bs. I have never encountered an L1 in my 25 years in tech. I've encountered probably thousands of H1Bs.
L1 must already have worked for the same company in another country for at least one year, and are essentially transferring to the U.S. This is what the massive consulting shops like InfoSys do, and to a much smaller degree Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and some accounting firms. Since these people have already worked for the company, they are not as often displacing people when they move here (though, yes, it does happen, and also happens indirectly by outsourcing to InfoSys and laying off your staff...but that's not really different from outsourcing to India but with the people onsite).
Both programs need to be restricted to a cap of something like 1,000 per year, instead of the hundreds of thousands that come in every year in the current programs combined.