“What is the deal with H1-B employees?
“Will Americans not work for the wages an H1b person will take?”
The tech industry is into crazes. Right now, it’s AI.
There is a very limited number of Americans with say a decade of AI experience.
If a new development language ‘catches fire’, a similar situation can occur. Companies crave experienced people, and there simply aren’t enough Americans.
If a new technology-based business model becomes beloved by Wall Street, a similar situation can occur.
There are as many of you know, many cases where employers are not in a race but are trying to minimize labor costs. The way to deal with that would to bar H-1Bs from say coding in C++, Java or Python.
LOL ... like they're falling out of the woodwork in India, Vietnam, or Costa Rica?
I have personally watched a former employer post job requirements that were objectively impossible for someone not on the original Microsoft .NET development team to meet.
The reason for that was, purely and simply, they wanted to say "Oh, look, no Americans are qualified" so they could hire a totally unqualified H1-B at half the price.
Besides, this "years of experience on a new technology" stuff is crap. How is anyone supposed to gain "years of experience on a new technology" when the only people hired are those with years of experience? Where did they get those "years of experience"?