Ah, gotcha. The "hiring" was in reference to the post you responded to a couple up about job postings (anything with a job posting is going to be H1B, which you probably know).
I agree on the big body shops (InfoSys, GGK, et al), those are largely L1, but you don't really see that kind of wholesale replacement of local IT staff with Indians anymore. Still plenty of onsite staff-aug in like DC area, but things have really shifted remote since covid, and even before that the trend in foreign staff-aug was to just outsource to WiPro, etc., with foreign resources still living in their home countries (I was seeing a lot of Kenya).
Where I'm at now they've started using Central and South America with the workers never leaving their countries (easier than India and Africa because same time zones).
Anyways, point is, it doesn't really matter the visa program, or the outsourcing method, the abuse of them all will accelerate. At this point I don't believe there is a solution in the system, it is completely captured and being pillaged and plundered before collapse.
To me, the fight should be about what lies on the other side of the (multi-stage, largely orchestrated) collapse. Building out parallel economies, systems and networks now makes it so they can't as easily force everyone into their "solution". Best case, that means they must compromise on the bad stuff. Worst case is at least we have something in place to survive outside of their system until they start coming after us.
Ah, gotcha. The "hiring" was in reference to the post you responded to a couple up about job postings (anything with a job posting is going to be H1B, which you probably know).
I agree on the big body shops (InfoSys, GGK, et al), those are largely L1, but you don't really see that kind of wholesale replacement of local IT staff with Indians anymore. Still plenty of onsite staff-aug in like DC area, but things have really shifted remote since covid, and even before that the trend in foreign staff-aug was to just outsource to WiPro, etc., with foreign resources still living in their home countries (I was seeing a lot of Kenya).
Where I'm at now they've started using Central and South America with the workers never leaving their countries (easier than India and Africa because same time zones).
Anyways, point is, it doesn't really matter the visa program, or the outsourcing method, the abuse of them all will accelerate. At this point I don't believe there is a solution in the system, it is completely captured and being pillaged and plundered before collapse.
To me, the fight should be about what lies on the other side of the (multi-stage, largely orchestrated) collapse. Building out parallel economies, systems and networks now makes it so they can't as easily force everyone into their "solution". Best case, that means they must compromise on the bad stuff. Worst case is at least we have something in place to survive outside of their system until they start coming after us.