Thread regarding Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) layoffs

Have you gone to interviews? The managers these days are all from India

I agree this stinks!

What is the cost of H1B visas cost to the company?

thank god trump is clamping down on the job stealing pirates. They send a person from India, you train them for eventual WFR.

"....Or just set up in Vancouver or Toronto."

Yep, thats a plan or at least a thought...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/31/in-silicon-valley-plotting-to-get-foreign-born-workers-to-vancouver/

From the article...

“To keep H-1B workers in one place rather than see them scatter. To point them to a more-than-decent city and airport where they can move their work and live happily and access great public schools. We have this community here in Silicon Valley that we want to preserve and if you look at a map, there are few places other than Vancouver that qualify for this kind of move.”

We “aren’t saying to move on spec but to have a ripcord,” adds Rafer.

$135K salary floor won't matter much in the Bay Area, but everywhere else it will mean fewer H1-Bs. But I expect instead of bringing them here they'll send the jobs to them. Or just set up in Vancouver or Toronto.

The current format of the H1B bill would not include companies like HPE, CSC, IBM, Accenture, etc., it only applies to companies that employ more than 15% of their workforce in the US as H1B workers, really would do nothing for US workers. It is aimed at Infosys, Tata, etc..

In 2003 at Enterasys I watched a dedicated employee with 20 plus years experience train an H1B guy from India how do do HIS job and was laid off 2 weeks later. I have seen many friends at Fidelity have to train their Indian replacements, and if they didn't cooperate would have not received any severance package when laid off. And don't forget the well publicized Disney deal where they replaced 250 IT workers with Indian replacements in the same way:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-claims-disney-colluded-to-replace-us-workers-with-immigrants.html?_r=0

The "guest worker" program has been abused and it is refreshing to see President Trump attempting to make changes.

And during my 3 years at HP I witnessed no less than 8 of my H1B guest worker colleagues produce children, Ever hear of the term anchor baby?

MAGA!

Watch Trump put Abidali Neemuchwala in charge of the effort to overhaul the program. It certainly fits with his pattern of appointments.

Agree! She does not care. She has millions!

Meg is more likely to move everything to India than hire more Americans. You don't need H1Bs if none of the work is done in the U.S....

So sorry. Hope you will be okay Ugg!!!

I had 5 years service with HPE at Fremont Storage division! Last year my job and work was outsourced and replaced by a H1B worker.

Now I am still looking for job but that H1B worker has still been working fine there !

Hopefully there will be more American jobs as a result. Unfortunately, there is no doubt companies will do their best to get around this and continue to use cheaper overseas labor.

Yup!

More jobs for Americans! Woop woop.. hurray..!

Long overdue!