Thread regarding Comcast layoffs

After almost 10 years in the Comcast world, I’ve realized every single time that the most valuable technical skill is knowing the right people! Want to move from contractor to FTE? Just figure out your manager’s /teammates favorite food. Want to switch teams before yours gets dissolved? Just know someone who knows someone influential. Technical interviews, skills, and experience? Apparently, those are just optional formalities! 😂

@dh

"On October 8, 2026, Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling suspended eight employers from the Permanent Labor Certification Program, known as PERM. Six are IT outsourcing firms (Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, HCL Technologies, and Capgemini), and the other two are Microsoft and Adobe, which he said were suspended "due to multiple active federal investigations.

...We will not accept any new or process any pending permanent labor certification applications involving these companies," Sonderling said. He backed the decision with a single figure for all eight companies combined: "Since 2009, just these companies alone have requested almost three million foreign workers. They've received over 230,000 H-1B visa approvals and over 100,000 permanent labor certifications. That's hundreds of thousands of jobs that were taken from American workers."

Have a read: https://www.i-9intelligence.com/articles/dol-perm-suspension-microsoft-adobe-it-firms

Banned companies??? ??

@cz How many times do people have to say on these threads that facts are not racist. The truth and reality of how things are going by outsourcing/using H1-bs/etc is not based on SKIN COLOR. People take away the true meaning of the word and now call anything and everything racist. It’s exhausting.

Comcast is one of the most diverse companies to work for; the entire US-based employee group is very mixed and its been wonderful. It is also one company where a lot of women are in leadership. The main issue people have with all of the outsourcing and work visas is that jobs have been taken from domestic workers during all these layoffs. People are said to play favorites within these groups, hire their family/friends and to reiterate what the post said above, skills, experience and other things are overlooked. Also, while there have been freezes on hiring in the US, there were and are jobs posted overseas. While there are layoffs here, none of this is being considered. Saving that dollar has only slowed business. It’s also caused layoffs of many people who built this company, had priceless experience and superior skills, and worked their as--s off doing it. The value of that is priceless in any business, but it has been grossly overlooked at Comcast. So to understand why people in the US may be a little pi---d, this is a small piece. Much more is going on that some people don’t want to talk about.

When it comes to H1-bs, they were not meant to be used as a replacement of American workers. They were only meant to be used temporarily if a company couldn’t find anyone to do a specific job within the US. It’s the law. This again, is not racist. One would expect it to work the same way in other countries for Americans! This has been abused massively all over, so the issue is much bigger than Comcast. It’s all over.

There have been many issues with the outsourcing work and positions from what little birdies have brought to management, and it’s not all the India team’s fault. We are simply different cultures who do a lot of things differently in the workplace. We have a huge time zone gap for starters, different ways of doing work and managing it, different ways of speaking (scripts or AI have to be used), and other issues stated in the post above. Sometimes it truly doesn’t work out It’s not racist nor a dig at anyone to point it out. From a customer perspective (those who are so important in keeping the company afloat), It’s caused a lot of confusion and frustration. It’s been years of disappointment for them on the CS side. Trust is also important. Overall, outsourcing slows down a lot of processes and procedures on even the smallest tasks, but it’s being overlooked by many.

@OP I can’t believe that when you import a foreign workforce to save 40-50% in operation costs vs paying actual Americans that bad results will follow. Absolutely shocking and yet this is happening in practically every corporation across multiple sectors that has hired Indians en masse.

I don’t blame Indians, I get it from their perspective but I have a burning hot disgust for the politicians and corporate sc-m that allowed this to happen. 100% sold Americans out.

But myopic business and political decisions come at a cost with enshitification being the primary result.

Companies like Comcast are reaping what they have sowed.

@bw

https://www.visaverge.com/h1b/cognizant-faces-green-card-freeze-and-h-1b-fraud-probe-over-perm-filings/

What are the banned companies

All truth spoken. And it’s companywide. No surprise Comcast is also hiring people from banned companies. Top leadership only care about making $72M/year at the cost of customers and employees.