Posted on 10/02/2025 4:53:23 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The H-1B visa, introduced by the United States in 1990, has long been a pathway for highly skilled professionals from across the globe to contribute to America’s technology sector. Many of today’s tech leaders, including Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, and Satya Nadella, entered the US through this programme, allowing them to innovate, lead companies, and create global impact.
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Sundar Pichai
Pichai came to the US as an international student before transitioning to an H-1B visa, which allowed him to join Google in product management roles. Over the years, he rose to become CEO of Alphabet, overseeing key innovations in AI, Google Cloud, and hardware like Pixel phones and Nest devices.
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Satya Nadella
Nadella moved to the US in the early 1990s and obtained an H-1B visa to work at Microsoft. Rising through the ranks, he became CEO in 2014, leading Microsoft’s transformation through cloud computing, AI, and enterprise solutions. Nadella emphasises the critical role of skilled immigrants in fostering innovation and growth, highlighting that many of Microsoft’s most transformative projects have been driven by talent brought to the US through H-1B.
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I know who Elon Musk is. Who the hell is Sundar Pichai?
WIKI
[Satya] Nadella was born on 19 August 1967 in Hyderabad into a Telugu Hindu family. His mother Prabhavati was a Sanskrit lecturer. His father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandhar, was an Indian Administrative Service officer.
Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet before receiving a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka in 1988. He then traveled to the United States to study for an MS in computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, receiving his degree in 1990. He received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1997.
Nadella worked at Sun Microsystems as a member of its technology staff before joining Microsoft in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella
Unlike the others mentioned here, Musk didn't just become CEO of an American company that already existed and which was already huge. Musk started several companies such as Paypal, SpaceX, etc. He did take over Tesla but it was tiny and had no products to sell. He MADE that company. Along the way creating and growing these companies, Musk created hundreds of thousands of jobs for Americans. As for Twitter, the people fired were Leftist censors. They were exactly the people who needed to be fired. Freeing Twitter from the Deep State/Silicon Valley blob was of great service to America and the world - it did a helluva lot to restore freedom of speech which was rapidly being lost.
Look at the others. They rose through the ranks of companies they did not create or grow practically from scratch. They didn't create a lot of jobs. They were woke Leftist censors who did all they could to destroy freedom of speech and they pushed out Americans in favor of ever more H1B Indians every chance they got. Screw them. They're a cancer we neither need nor want.
Will limiting H-1B visas accelerate the replacement of jobs with AI? I mean, that is what happened when the minimum wage was increased by law which exceeded the value of the work which lead to replacement by self-services.
“highly skilled professionals”
Yep-
Not run-of-the mill coders for home country peasant wages.
There is a difference.
If they are so good and valuable, then the $100K shouldn’t be an issue.
Right?
Thus proving the immorality of strip mining human capital from other nations.
Not to mention that h1b suppresses what it purports to advance. American stem workers have diminished job opportunities and wages due to the importation of cheap stem labor.
h1b must be eliminated.
You want Indians to shape the US , look at India it’s a MESS
The existing H-1B program has caused a lot of misery for a lot of Americans.
The existing H-1B program is making it very risky for American kids to go deeply in unforgivable debt for a college education.
The existing H-1B program needs to be reformed.
It is my understanding that Musk came in under a student visa and worked on technical stuff on his own time & parental dime.
Unlike Trump’s proposed blank check for college graduate work visas, I would annually limit them to 1/10,000nds of a state’s last completed census count, also approved by the state’s lieutenant governor, and limited to no more than 80% of those nominations submitted to that person, and in such a manner that the lieutenant governor has to exercise genuine discretion.
The lieutenant governor typically is less politically vulnerable and has more time for scrutiny. It would be asking too much of Newsom to screen ~4,000 applications annually.
Mississippi would have less demand for computer scientists, but greater demand for educational & medical people to supply unpopular rural areas.
The US has about 330 million people, so that would be ~33,000 college graduates annually allowed for as long as they are employee (with breaks of no more than seven weeks in any 12-month period) and meet the pay minimums below, with 20% exempt by state [to allow in talented artists and performers].
Minimum required graduate annual pay formula:
$38K any qualifying degree+
$9K any qualifying H-1B degree+
$9K for masters, without Ph.D.+
$18K for Ph.D.+
15 times HUD monthly one-bedroom fair market rent+
$6K degree field wherein certification normally commands a premium+
$10K employee works with technology+
$11K uncommon technical skill useful for national defense possessed
[microwave, radar, integrated circuit, cryptography, signal/image processing and other Secretary of Defense listed]+
$10K management or management degree+
$15K if project management+
$8K employer’s workforce has more than two H-1Bs+
$5K employer’s US full-time workforce exceeds 10+
$5K employer is a publicly traded entity, or controlled by one+
10% graduate program usage premium+
state income tax adjustment
These would get adjusted for inflation as with tax brackets.
The purpose of the formula is to price out otherwise possible second-rate and third-rate imports, not first-rate imports.
“the $100K shouldn’t be an issue”
It is if you’re paying for a “pig in a poke.”
Credentials don’t mean what they once did. Consider the case of Harvard graduates.
“the $100K shouldn’t be an issue”
My father was very wary of hiring really smart people. There’s not always a smart & easy way of doing things.
Hannuman! Wild!
In Khathmandu there is Hannuman Dhokka.
Monkey headed Vishnu, iirc.
Happily, in the main, Hindus are not murdering me today. If they stay in India and Make India Great Again, there’s no problem! If they abuse our H1b program, deport their sorry asses back to Delhi!
Like another freeper suggested...let 10 of the best in each year.
Always pay attention when someone knows says, “I have a PHD in GSD.” If they’re right, that’s the guy you want.
That's a good way to ask that question, considering he's in charge of Google, which has been a hell on our nation.
MUSK CAME TO USA AS A STUDENT-—NOT SURE THAT WAS H-1B territory
MUSK LAID OFF TWITTER PEOPLE FOR A LAUNDRY LIST OF REASONS.
NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH WAS OUTRIGHT FRAUD ON EXPENSE REPORTS
Ah yes because every Indian seat warmer is going to become a multi billionaire inventing new technologies. Not just a cheap keyboard tapper.
Are the Times of India reporters admitting success can not happen in their s hole and they must be here on magical American soil?
Elon Musk is an African-American, bigot.
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