#h1b

OK bro - US IBM employees... How many of them are legally working in the US but are of Indian origin and currently have an #H1B visa?? Take a peak at the government listings - thousands and thousands of H1Bs were brought in, they are on US payroll, but working for wages lower than the prevailing rate - that's how they make money - and good luck for Hertz folks transitioning to IBM they will be kept until they train Indians who will do the job for 1/10th of the price - here is your data http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=IB&job=&city=&year=All

And #H1B folks

More outsourcing and job cuts

Will happen this year and next year, E&E 2020 and Follow the Sun initiatives. Expect 5% cuts this year in IT. More work will be sent to India for IT.

Another #H1B scam

Hertz lays off 250+ IT employees today (20-Feb-2016)

Today Hertz decided to layoff 250+ IT employees across the country. some of the jobs are being outsourced to IBM.

@ppy when it comes to #H1B visas, most of Indian pure players abuse visas 100x more than we do - I am not saying we are perfect but we do bring in just a fraction of H1Bs if compared to Tatas and Wipros of the world

All of them abuse #h1b visas

All Contractors are under performed at One Shell and Two Shell Plaza and all these contractors are from Accenture,IBM and Wipro must be fired.

All these contractors if retained by Shell then there is 1000% chances of shutting down Shell Oil Business.

Also all under performers must be fired immediately without any notice.Shell Oil must be honest in its HR Policies and procedures while hiring contractors since these contractors do zero job but earn thousands in salary.

If #H1B is to hire the best and the brightest of the world, the threshold should be $200K not $110K which is peanuts in high cost areas (California, NYC, DC, etc.) - they will accomplish nothing on 110K

It's time for that #h1b scam to stop - seriously...

We do not have a #H1B problem, we have a Dell problem

Why do we need #H1B program?

Well more reasons to stop the H1B program and replace it with a green card program. Trump will make America great again.

I do not think #H1B folks are our problem

It becomes filled with h1b1 workers and they talk about how great it is to be making $19/hr as long as they have a job title?

Another #H1B voices his opinion - please be silent

why software jobs are going to Indians ?

because they work hard for it. Just look at their schools. They get trained from middle school working 10-12 hours a day learning Math and English. They are surrounded by lot of software people. Eventually, they pick up and are good at it. Compare to our middle schools here where all girls worry about makeup and boys, while boys trying to act cool, ask the girls out. How can America win ?

All the pressure comes in high school and no wonder half the kids are on anti depressants.. America needs to raise standards and cut down their activities that are useless like soccer, Piano etc. Just focus on studies and then you can get the jobs. Identify the skill set early on but that is the biggest problem. >Which kid is good at what ? It might take fun out of life but if we can find the answer, that's the silver bullet..

Sorry if this makes anyone feel old, but 35 is indeed considered over-the-hill in the IT industry. Remember Mark Zuckerberg's (in)famous quote, "young people are just smarter." Norm Matloff discusses this in his excellent #H1B summary: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b10min.html

Sorry if this makes anyone feel old, but 35 is indeed considered over-the-hill in the IT industry. Remember Mark Zuckerberg's (in)famous quote, "young people are just smarter." See Norm Matloff's excellent #H1B summary at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b10min.html -- he discusses age discrimination in several places.

Another #h1b Rant

I am voting for Trump. He will stop the give-away of H1B visas to Indians. They are taking all out jobs. Corporations are outsourcing them

I am voting for Trump. He will stop the give-away of H1B visas to Indians. They are taking all our jobs.

Corporations like NOV are outsourcing & allowing these foreigners to take the jobs from our US citizens.

With so many U.S citizens out of work l, the constant layoffs, those laid off are replaced with foreigners with H1B visas.

#H1B Scumbags - just tagging it

Infosys and H1B abuse

http://www.epi.org/blog/new-data-infosys-tata-abuse-h-1b-program/

I am not wrong

You're absolutely wrong. A company pays around 20-30k per #H1B filed. Also H1Bs have the same salaries as US workers at least at MS where the salary for a given title is usually non-negotiable. H1Bs are actually more expensive than US workers and that's why many smaller companies don't hire H1Bs simply because they can't afford the cost.

so true on #h1b

Verizon's only "core" is to make the top execs wealthy .... and to give jobs to offshore and H1B morons. But the latter is just to help achieve making the execs wealthy. Cause we all know how piss-poor the offshore and H1B resources are.

I am sick and tired of the #H1B rant - you guys said nothing as both Dems and Republicans were destroying US Manufacturing a couple of decades ago.

True, this really isn't about H1Bs. Those people just want to work. It really is just about capitalism, aka greed, and the US stands head and shoulders above the rest of the world when it comes to greed. It really is just the insatiable greed of Wall Steet. And what is Wall Street? Just a much larger version of each of us. Everyone wants that big fat 401k, who cares about a bunch of Chinese people working miserably long hours? Labor is the biggest cost for business in this country, AND the easiest and most affective way to cut costs. As unpleasant as it is, people here are paid way way more than either China or India. It's not my opinion, everyone of us know it's true. The human misery many of us, including me, is not going away any time soon. And IS a direct result of paying ourselves " the big bucks" decade after decade after decade. No I'm not a troll nor a vz HR plant. Just someone who knows that Wall Street is the child of the American people's need, the need for greed. It's karma, we are getting what we made for ourselves, and those Indian & Chinese people have come for your job and your future. They too will, just like the Japanese before them, will "win the peace." Of course we can always resolve the problem the good oi' American way and shoot, stab, gas or bomb the bastards? Sorry, but this is not my opinion, it's the simple plain but sad truth.

OK - great, good for our. Wait until the #H1B cohort gains more strength, you will see what happens.

@2ypx: Read @2nyb 's post again -- he said it exempts employers not employees from certain taxes (in the US, both employers and employees pay a portion of various payroll taxes). I don't know how much this applies to #H1B, but it certainly applies to #OPT, for which Obama's DHS is about to triple the visa duration, so Zuckerberg et al. can bypass the annual H-1B caps.

Disney is the worst of them all - they have a corp office in Orlando, very close to the park, it's on Celebration way - it's like an IT factory, they've built it recently. The carnage is taking place there, not in the park. They are working with a ton of outsourcing companies and laying people off. So for example, they would work with Accenture, and let's say you work for 50 bucks/hr - Accenture tells them, hey I will replace that guy for 30 bucks/hr. But the issue is they cannot find anyone who will do it for 30, so they go to Accenture India and they bring someone from there to work on-shore in Orlando here. So, accenture pays the guy 20 bucks and they pocket 10. The guy is totally underpaid in US terms, but in Indian terms he just doubled his salary.

So you have armies of folks like that who come through Infosys, TATA, Accenture, Deloitte, it's the same concept - the consulting companies have relationships in IT departments, they walk around and look what parts of business they can take, and they pitch low cost resources - it works most of time.

This has nothing to do with 'best and brightest" concept that #H1B was to cover - this is pure labor arbitrage where the outsourcing companies are making a ton of money by f---ing American workers.

All management at the target company knows about this, they are part of this scam as well.

Finally, here is the kicker - the visa application process is expensive and cumbersome (I think it's over 1000 bucks to apply). Also, if you apply you have about 10% chance of being accepted. So, what Infosys (and other) does is compensating the cost - so they will make let's say 10,000 applications, they pay ten million for that but they will manage to get only 1,000 people a visa - it's still good for them as they make 30K per resource a year, the average tenure on a contract is three years. So on each person they make 90K in three years, so on 10 million invested, they get 90 million in outsourcing revenue - this stuff is pure margin for them (let's say 80% margin as overhead is minimal).

So, if you look at the stats with TATA, Infosys, WIPRO, etc. bring in 3K every year, there is ton of money in this game - this is HIGHLY profitable for them, as contracts are long term and they go so deep in that the client have very difficult time getting rid of the folks who get hired.

I hope this helps...

I do not think anybody is covering this thoroughly - there some right wing nutcases who focus on this, but as it relates to serious reporting, I think #H1B is not covered properly by the mainstream media

Americans getting replaced by H1b workers - please do the following to raise public awareness of this issue.

American workers getting replaced by H1bs brought in by contracting firms

Those of you who want to raise awareness of the public just like the Disney folks and the Edison folks did about replacing American workers at your companies by H1bs. I would suggest you to please google and see which journalists have written on H1bs replacing Americans. There are lots of them writing about that and they are always looking for new stories. Please find their email address and write to them to educate the public and the Govt and stop this abuse.

Confidentiality will be maintained if you request the journalists to do it.

I do not think we have a big #H1B problem, our issues are mostly based on #outsourcing work #offshore

IEEE - trying to get DOJ to intervene on workers displaced by H1b

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3019885/it-careers/ieee-usa-urging-displaced-workers-to-file-complaints.html

Action NEEDED by DISPLACED workers.

Please read the article above and sign the petition so that the DOJ can start looking into this. They need 100 signatures , please act. no action no result.....nothing changes unless we the workers act.

Very cool - you are happy at your new job and the #H1B guy is happy in your old position

Not really, I know some #H1B folks who were cut