As an owner of an IT consulting company, we do not hire H1B or even green card holders. US citizens only. The acculturated ones work just as hard as any native-born US citizen. The others are pretty useless drones. They did a study in India, and only 25% of Indians actually want to be in tech; let that sink in. They do it, because they have to. They pack in apartments, 3 to a bedroom, in cities like D.C and Chicago, and goldbrick and bullshit their way in, depressing our tech wages. It’s the big consulting firms, billing at $250 per hour and paying them $40, they f up most projects, and the clients then rinse and repeat, with another consulting firm. It’s madness really. It’s actually, want great out of the box tech minds next to Americans, hire Eastern European.
They pack in apartments, 3 to a bedroom, in cities like D.C and Chicago, and goldbrick and bullshit their way in, depressing our tech wages.
Well now they are taking over cities like where I live in Frisco Texas, and they live in nice homes in gated communities.
The Eastern Europeans that I worked with were consistently the best software and hardware engineers. Some of the Russians were brilliant.