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Tech is good, not easy but good. You grt comfortable after 10 years, cruise, good money and benefits, RSUs, etc. One day an LR comes and your world crumbles. Its hard to start over and be a yr 1 b--ch again...
Med school, its a safety for life, but if they open that up on #H1B (like they did with tech and Pharmacists) you are basically screwed...
My 2 c, do what you love and kick butt, money will follow
"USA is a net global exporter of goods and services. What would happen if China, India, Malaysia and other emerging markets close their borders to US imports."
Not much call for economics classes down in Hyderabad, eh, mate? The US hasn't had an overall trade surplus in over 30 years:
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balance-of-trade
And the US has had a trade deficit with each of the countries you listed since at least 1985:
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/index.html
PS: Just fixed another bug in some #H1B import code, bro! Long live the H-1B visa!
I have nothing against globalization or outsourcing. I have an issue with the #H1B abuse that's taking place everyday and EY is contributing here. The H1B program was designed to bring in the best and brighest of the world the the States. However, all people that we bring are low level engineers and analysts, often paid around 60K for a job that a US based resource would be paid about 100K. This depresses wages for folks in that 100K tier, no wander that wages in IT are stagnant - we allow an unlimited supply of indentured servants who will toil for 60% of the regular wage up to 5 years as they are hoping that their green card will be granted at the end of the period.
This gaming of the system was invented by the Indian pureplayers but it was wholeheartedly embraced by EYs and Accentures of the world - now it's a race who will bring in more H1B resources as that enables them to improve margins (charge as you were deploying a 100K resource but plug in an H1B guy for 60% of the cost).
We need to fix this and we need to continue to support globalization as well.
yes, graduates from American schools on F-1 visa that are now moving to OPT for 36 months and then can go to #H1B. have you gone on a recruiting trip to any US comp sci dept recently? large numbers of foreign students. plenty of public universities recruiting abroad so they can exploit foreign students to get out of state tuition at the expense of native students. Hillary is promising staple a green card legislation for foreign students who graduate with masters or higher. the native STEM talent shortage is a myth.
They just announced that that they are going to process 150 Green Cards this year for folks in FTL and Santa Clara. They say they cannot find talent. What a truck load of bull$...t that is?
Need some new law to deport all these blood s---ing #H1B s so Americans can have their jobs back.
re: green cards--dont forget the elites keep telling us #h1b is a non-immigrant visa. right..
Everyone is playing the system, the Indian pure-players have perfected it, IBMs and Accentures of the world are right behind - Oracle is doing it (a LOT) but we are not an #H1B key player at all
You can check out the stats here: http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=ORACLE&job=&city=&year=All
A quick look will return 25K applications for Accenture and 4K for Oracle...
"You mean like the ones I heard from an Indian #H1B member of the Religion of Peace"
If you are not spilling the beans, you are just stirring bs. You might very well have heard something awful, and rather than hinting at, you should just man the f* up and say it.
And in the case that it is true, what did you gain by making references to H1B and "Religion of Peace".
You can report bigoted remarks without falling into generalizations and bigotry. Just so you know.
@1wcin: "Not-so-veiled hints about the Jews" You mean like the ones I heard from an Indian #H1B member of the Religion of Peace when he thought no one could hear him outside an 899 conference room?
CTXS hires 123 #H1B in Q1 after massive layoffs: http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=CITRIX+SYSTEMS+INC&job=&city=&year=2016
couldnt find room for 123 of the hundreds of laid off employees?
The #H1B issue is not to be ignored. I think that it had a minimal impact on Intel's problems, nonetheless, the program that started ~10 years ago has been accelerating recently and is changing the landscape of the technology industry... The change comes from multiple angles and racial / cultural is only one aspect here, certainly less important than the impact on wages and job availability it results in.
Someone noted this, I believe it pretty much sums up the problem:
Intel like many other US companies is a h1b sweatshop. It exploits the foreigners by creating a labor force of indentured servants without a voice and It exploits the citizens by driving wages down.
Racism at Verizon? Say it isn't so!
Offshoring jobs at Verizon? I can't believe what I'm hearing?
Replacing onshore skilled resources with #H1B Visa people just to save $$$!?! No way, that is illegal!!
But it's pretty evident Verizon is guilty as charged.
Tagging it
Racism in IT
Now that the strike is over IT can go back to being massively racist. Shankar and his almost all Indian male direct reports and their Indian male reports can finish the ethnic cleansing that started when he became CIO. The only qualifications you need to become a director now is to be Indian, male and worked on the wireline side. Within 2 years there will only be Indians left at the current rate. Wanting to do the job the right way is no longer a good thing.
The company is hoping that no one would apply for the position that they have posted, and if someone does, they will find a way to declare him/her unqualified.
These ads are part of the "labor certification" process to obtain an #H1B visa (work visa) for a foreign worker that they have already decided to hire for the position .
U.S. immigration authorities require companies to place such ads and demonstrate that the company "could not find a U.S. worker who could do the job", and therefore justify the need to hire a foreign worker for the position.
That is why the company hopes that nobody would apply and if someone does, the find a reason to disqualify him/her.
This is an abuse that is rampant in tech industry. They bring in cheap foreign workers to the U.S to replace U.S. workers.
Sarah Blackwell - she was the one that took Disney to court (re #H1B abuse); see also: http://protectusworkers.org/
14 days ago by FightBack | Post ID: @HttPShH-4rot
Sara Blackwell (http://Theblackwellfirm.com ) is in the forefront of fighting against (1) H1B Visa abuse and (2) Companies shipping jobs overseas.
Part of what she is doing involves the EEOC ( https://www.eeoc.gov ).
Call her and she will provide you with information. She spent a good 20 minutes with me going over what she is doing and my options with IBM. Her dealings are not specific to IBM, but to the plight of of ALL Americans whose jobs are being taken away.
There is no guarantee of anything coming out of this, but she is drawing attention to our plight.
Check her out on youtube. Here she is on FOX Business - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reX04kc9bvI
Good luck to us all.
The GOP supports an anything-goes #h1b free for all as much as the DNC, even more so. It's all one group of millionaires taking good care of the billionaires who keep them in office.
The only difference between the parties is that the GOP wears the "pro-billionaire: evil is ok in my book" logo on their sport coats as a badge of pride. The DNC hides it on a t-shirt under their button downs.
Companies in Charlotte are stepping up their efforts to hire foreign workers – especially for information technology jobs – under a federal visa program that’s becoming a political flashpoint.
The H-1B visa lets companies bring foreign workers to the U.S. temporarily, to fill jobs requiring highly skilled labor. Employers say it helps them fill jobs that draw too few qualified applicants. Critics say some companies abuse it, replacing Americans with foreign tech workers willing to work for less.
Sometimes American IT workers are laid off after spending their final days training their foreign-born replacements.
Demand for these visa workers is growing especially fast in Charlotte. Last year hundreds of employers filed initial applications for more than 16,500 H-1B workers in the Charlotte metro area, many in technology positions. That number alone is bigger than the entire workforce of some of Charlotte’s largest employers.
Supporters of the visas, including local job recruiters, point to a shortage of skilled technology talent that is resulting in thousands of open computing jobs throughout the state. A lack of computer science majors graduating adds to the problem, officials say.
But in some instances, “companies that are bringing in H-1B people at the same time are having staff reductions in the same area – generally speaking, the IT area,” said Bill Chu, a professor at UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics. “There are lots of H-1B people in Charlotte.”
A major source of H-1B workers is India, where experts say technology is a popular field of study and young, English-speaking workers are willing to move abroad for work. According to the federal government, 70 percent of H-1B visas granted in 2014 were designated for someone born in India.
Employers use the visas in different ways. Sometimes they bring a foreign worker with a specialized skill directly onto their staff. Other times, employers lay off Americans, then outsource work to firms that employ large numbers of #H1B workers.
In the Charlotte metro area, nine of the 10 employers who filed the most initial applications for visa workers last year were outsourcing firms, according to an Observer analysis of federal data. The exception was Charlotte-based Bank of America. The bank filed applications for about 380 visa workers, ranking it ninth. Statewide, employers filed applications for more than 33,400 visa workers last year.
Only a portion of such applications are approved each year by the federal government. Employers who received approvals can then enter a lottery held annually in recent years because of high demand. Last year, about one in three applications seeking 85,000 available visas nationwide won the lottery.
Federal data shows companies’ visa applications for Charlotte positions were up 39 percent last year from the year before – surpassing the roughly 25 percent increase nationwide.
In Charlotte, employers’ reliance on visa workers has some on edge about their own job security.
“It is a real concern,” said one Bank of America technology employee who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. Other banks, including Wells Fargo, have also filed applications for people on visas to work in Charlotte.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article81676692.html#storylink=cpy
This is a favorite sport nowadays - #H1B bashing
Oh, yet another #H1B rant, what can I tell you, getting rid of that visa would solve all our problems.
The whole country exploits #H1B folks, what's new?
For decades Jerry Young has been growing business shamelessly on the back of young H1B workers straight out of college. These foreigners are deliberately worked like slaves to the point of exhaustion and breakdown, on the threat of loosing their jobs and their residency. He has created a culture that utterly resembles a nuclear winter. If the Exxon's and BP's of the industry seriously knew what was going on here, they would be ashamed to be associated with this disgrace. You can talk to anyone that works here, there are many posts on glassdoor too about this behavior. It is no secret. It is unethical. It is un-American. It has been condoned by useless management for years. Jerry needs to go !
The U.S. government has indicted a Virginia couple for running an H-1B visa-for-sale scheme the government said generated about $20 million.
Raju Kosuri and Smriti Jharia of Ashburn, Va., along with four co-conspirators, were indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The scheme involved, in part, setting up a network of shell companies and the filing of H-1B visas applications for non-existent job vacancies.
Workers were required to pay their own visa processing fees and were treated as hourly contractors, the DOJ alleged. Treating H-1B workers as hourly contractors is in violation of the program rules, the government said.
More than 800 H-1B visa petitions were submitted over a period of nearly 15 years, according to court documents.
The six people indicted in the case face prison time of anywhere from 10 to 30 years if convicted.
Neither Kosuri nor Jharia could be reached immediately for comment.
The H-1B program may be susceptible to fraud. In 2008, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service reported that a review of 246 randomly selected petitions filed in 2005 and 2006 revealed a fraud rate of just over 13%.
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The government's analysis found forged documents, fake degrees and shell companies with fake locations.
Jail time is a risk for people convicted of H-1B fraud, although it's difficult to know how many have actually been sent to prison for it. One H-1B fraud case that may involve a prison sentence is pending in Texas.
A U.S. District Court judge in Dallas is scheduled to consider sentencing, as early as this week, for brothers Atul Nanda and Jiten "Jay" Nanda, for visa fraud following a jury verdict last November. They face up to 20 years in prison for using the visa program to create an on-demand workforce, the government alleged.
Hashtag #H1B thrives on Indian bashing. There are 1000s of posts on the topic, all kinds of companies, very little BAC there
Check out all the posts here on layoffs dot com with #H1B hashtag, there are a lot of unhappy people here
One of parents was a loyal Xerox employer for almost 40 years. Because of what I witnessed years ago in my own family, I now am a part of an anti-outsourcing group that has mobilized to expose the behaviour of certain U.S.-based employers in regards to U.S. workers. I would love to have the opportunity to talk to as many other workers as I can from Xerox whose jobs have been outsourced. Politicians need to get involved and all of your stories should be told to the public. Taking advantage of Federal programs (i.e. the HB-1 visa program that Xerox has received money from) only to continue cutting U.S. jobs is criminal behaviour in my opinion. Please let me if you or anyone you know is interested in communicating further. If you are already laid off, you have nothing to lose; you can only gain from exposing what is going on in order to prevent this from happening to others here and across the country who are employed by such greedy corporations. The general community has no idea how deep this actually goes. Only you can shed light on this, because you lived through it first hand.
Working in the Silicon Valley as an engineer use to be the ultimate career.
Today, the Valley has been overrun by H1Bs from India and Pakistan that refuse to work with other ethnic groups. Additionally, Indian management has taken over the best companies in the valley that now just want to hire H1Bs from India. The H1Bs that came to the valley from India 15-20 years ago were really sharp. Yet, today, the H1Bs coming from India are subpar to the American standard and are mostly a burden to the workplace. Today, High Tech wages are suppressed, Real Estate and Rents continue to rise, and the highest skilled tech workers in the valley have now been deemed too expensive and therefore obsolete. Everything that made the Valley wonderful and worthwhile is now gone. We've given the best jobs in the world to the H1B, allowed the H1B to reside in the best geographic location in the world, and now the highest skilled workers in the world have been disparaged and displaced by the #H1B over cost rather than skill. American High Tech workers are not being put first. In fact, they are being put last. American High Tech workers are being treated as third class illiterate felons while the H1B is being treated as a first class citizen that does not hold citizenship. If you are an American Citizen and have been displaced by an H1B - then it is time to write to your congressmen and ask for the denial of any further work visas to the country.
Another fine American company shipping jobs overseas. Is this ever going to stop? #H1B
http://www.abc17news.com/news/ibm-responds-to-letter-from-us-senator-questioning-use-of-h1b-visas/33021996
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/04/29/zuckerberg-spent-19m-on-personal-security-over-past-three-years.html?intcmp=hplnws
layoffs due to zuckster's bodyguards needing nice new FN 15's. and why doesn't he fill those roles with "the best and brightest" on #h1b? oh yeah, right...
Good for you. This is a different company, #H1B polluted company
Sounds like more layoffs here
100+ offshore jobs added in the last six months, and MCK people sent over to train them.....
Sad to see the slow death continue.
Too bad Paragon leaders are making the same bad mistakes that ki-led Horizon, but not using lessons learned.
The only people in my office that have not packed their desks are #contractors and onshore #H1B people. Offshoring has worked so well in the past (sarcasm).
MCK management seems incapable of learning from past failures. #lessonslearned
Give us more details - I can ping Sara Blackwell ESQ down in Sarasota, she specializes in cases like this (she went after Disney on that #H1B case where they brought in Indians to replace US workers in Orlando)
http://www.cringely.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/unemployment_by_year-600x405.gif
Is Bechtel doing #H1B visas too? Outsourcing?
Layoff folks in Glendale - Hire folks in India
Bechtel is laying off employees in the US (Glendale AZ in particular has been hard hit) and sending those jobs to New Delhi.
So much for the much touted claim that Bechtel values their long term employees. New Delhi has plenty of job openings right now.
And meanwhile our US based office is wondering how many of us will get the ax this month. Disgusting.
This is public information, it's published by the dpts of labor / immigration - there are many sites that take the data and present it - you can see how many #H1B folks we brought onshore over last 3 years by visiting this site (I entered IBM keyword and a wild card into the query) - about 30K is listed right now, you need to be looking if they are approved or not, most of them are though:
http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=IBM%25&job=&city=&year=All
How many H1Bs does IBM have in their US team
How many H1Bs does IBM have in their US team? No one has talked about it.
The whole #H1B program needs to be cancelled and they need to go back to the drawing board here. I think we should go to an auction based system - for example, if there is an H1B spot, instead of doing a lottery, let's give it someone who's willing to pay the most for this. This would eliminate IBM from the process as they do not want to pay anything. This will take care of Tata, Accenture, Infy and others.
So, if you really need an H1B, pay up, there is a ton of smaller companies that stand no chance in the lottery system, but they would be more than willing to shell out 20, 30, 50K for a good talented resource.
Sen. Durbin calls Abbott Labs' IT layoffs 'harsh and insensitive’
More H-1B shenanigans at yet another company, a la, SCE, Disney, & Eversource Energy. . .
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3039353/it-careers/sen-durbin-calls-abbott-labs-it-layoffs-harsh-and-insensitive.html
How is this great news?
That's great news.. Trump will start blowing the trumpet in favor of H1B if at all he comes to power. Long live #H1B visas and other guest worker programs.