Posted on 03/21/2016 10:00:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Recently, social media was up in arms when Marc Andreessen made an out-of-order comment on his portfolio company's failure to implement FreeBasics in India. The 1B Indian population was "offended" and lashed out in various outbursts. We pride ourselves in being free and open.
On another note, we seem to be completely blind to some glaring inside issues in the India IT services industry and how it grinds the brightest of brains into slave-level drudgery. The biggest manifestation of this modern-day slavery is the H1B Visa game played by the large multi-billion dollar firms.
On April 1, 2015, the USCIS received over 200,000 applications for the 65,000 visas it was going to grant. Nearly 4 times! The visa lottery is now a big money-spinner.
In a recent report, you can see that the top applicants for the H1B visas are nearly all IT services firms, only a few like Microsoft, Google, and Oracle are other applicants. And do note the minimum salaries these companies declare they will pay the foreign worker--the Indian IT firms barely meet the minimum requirements, while the US companies declare over $100,000 salaries.
Here are some key trends that are never disclosed to the public, but have currently put over 1 million Indians into modern-day slavery:
In fact, there is a Visa Temple in India that upstages USCIS rules with faith.
I know of firms that have a bench of approved H1B visa holders who search for jobs while sitting in India, and travel once their roles are confirmed. This simply denies more deserving candidates a chance to apply to a program that clearly is for specialized categories of talent.
Bill Gates is frequently in D.C. lobbying to increase the visas issued every year, but these new visas will be simply lapped up by these billion-dollar bodyshops. I know of at least a dozen start-ups in Silicon Valley, where the CEOs are forced to work out of Canada or nearby places, because their single application didn't make it through the lottery.
Before NASSCOM formulates its next lobbying, it must work with the Indian IT firms that flagrantly misuse the visa programs. I haven't even begun on the L1 category of visas.
Chandrasekhar, Vishal Sikka, Francisco D'Souza, Neemuchwala, and others must stand up and commit to create a fair and transparent program for clients and immigrants. They must commit to pay fair salaries and agree to bring in really talented people, and not play these fake games.
India is losing its shine for IT services. And the big players are squarely to blame.
This is the chief reason that zuckerberg, gates, ellison and the others ought to be perceived as modern day slave masters. Add to that the hordes of uneducated, illiterate and Constitution-ignorant of illegal aliens that will be performing the slave-level manual work for them. It’s all about getting that next billion by any means necessary.
Are the folks who actually come over from India, complaining about the tradeoffs involved in taking an onshore job? Sometimes I wonder if the social justice folks are going overboard.
There may be uncertainties in the system but it’s considered a plum assignment to land one of these positions yet.
White-collar workers, professionals, and lower executives are next up on the outsourcing chopping block.
This naivete is the reason why there will always be a 1%, and that they'll always lord over the 99%.
This is why you will never become wealthy working for someone else.
RE: Are the folks who actually come over from India, complaining about the tradeoffs involved in taking an onshore job?
Many consider this a necessary stepping stone to eventually getting their green card.
This is at most only part of the picture. The other part of the picture is that US government hung a high tax and regulation price on hiring local talent. Wastrels in DC have a lot to do with this situation. If it weren’t for the Indians, the cowboys would have nobody they could afford to hire, so to speak.
Want to roll this situation back? Make it easier for local talent to compete.
RE: The other part of the picture is that US government hung a high tax and regulation price on hiring local talent.
How does this compare to the taxes and regulations outsourcing companies have to pay on hiring foreigners?
Of course this has to be asked, but these H1Bs don’t get unemployment insurance either, or otherwise rest on a network of welfare services which has a high cost just to implement, let alone the costs of the benefits.
RE: but these H1Bs don’t get unemployment insurance either, or otherwise rest on a network of welfare services which has a high cost just to implement
So, what happens if a H1-B engineer suddenly gets sick? Does he pay for his own medical? Or does the outsourcing company pay partly for it?
In some cases, the outsourcing company has some kind of plan that the overseas employees can use, but there are others where the employee is SOL, and either goes home for treatment (to be replaced by someone else from the outsourcer), or they look for out-of-band treatments through various “free” clinics or through networks of other H1-B workers from the same country. For example, here in NW Arkansas, there’s a sizeable Indian community based around the Walmart HQ. They often connect with Permanent Resident or Citizen Indians to create support networks, presumably including knowing doctors/dentists etc who could see them on the side for cash or some other private arrangement.
OK, he said "over" 200,000 but I don't see the actual number, so I'll assume it's not much over 200,000. Which would make it just barely over 3 times, not 4 times. (4 times would be over 250,000 - surely he'd stated that latter number.) Back to remedial math class for you!
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