The brain drain from there is complete.
I’ve worked at MANY places where they overloaded themselves with H1B visa holders, and I made a great deal of money fixing the software they created.
So, the net cost savings is nil. (in fact they lost money)
Haha that’s the business to be in these days, I was just posting about a friend of mine who worked the same line of work, correcting the unholy coding messes constantly being caused by incompetent h1b hires with fake degrees and inflated resumes, brought on by clueless H.R. departments (often staffed with diversity hires who majored in womyn’s or transgender studies) or smart-ass start-up execs who drank the open-borders Kool-Aid. He was never short on requests for new business or messes to clean up.
The only thing I ever worried about is how exasperated he got with the sheer extremes of stupidity that the Indian programmers somehow managed with their bungling, at one point he said he’d staff his own 10 year old nephew on some of these coding jobs before ever recommending h1b hires. At first I thought he was being gentle in a way, his nephew is one of these coding prodigies who could probably code up a decent new web browser on a spare afternoon, until I realized he wasn’t talking about replacing just one coder— he was talking about replacing one of these 10-person h1b teams that many of the bigger companies are so fond of hiring. Truly incredible how many resources are wasted on these monumentally incompetent h1b and l1 hires by “human resources” departments all in the name of a bit of extra short term profit.