It’s 100% about the tax breaks and cheap labor these companies receive from the hb1 visas.
Disgusting.
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Even Harvard is being accused of widespread Grade Inflation.
Meaning, students now graduating with “A” averages usually don’t deserve it, and found some way to DEI themselves up to an artificial (fake) level of achievement. When a potential employer cannot trust the judgement from one of our most famous schools, it is a shock and a warning.
This attitude of taking precautions is only a half step away from justifying a racial or cultural prejudice against most Americans who are not of Indian background.
The original article is at https://freebeacon.com/america/no-us-citizens-meet-the-it-firms-discriminating-against-americans/
Overseas education is just as bad. They think the ability to do “maths” is the only important thing. Many of their resumes are fabrications laden with hot keywords.
In a section titled "Visa requirement," LanceSoft recruiter Riyaz Ansari wrote that "candidates must hold an active H1B visa"—and stated explicitly that American citizens need not apply.
"No USC/GC for this role," Ansari wrote, using the acronyms for U.S. citizens and green card holders. He added that "LanceSoft is a certified Minority Business Enterprise"—a status the firm has used to secure public contracts—and touted the company's "diversified team environment."
LanceSoft should be banned from all public contracts.
Indians are in COMPLETE control of tech hiring in the USA. The discrimination against white American males is close to 100%.
This article hits home for me. I was in IT for over 45 years, back when mainframes were the size of pickup trucks. For most of my career, I was an independent consultant. As time went on, there were more and more Indians, Chinese, Russians, Pakistanis and other green card holders getting positions for much less than an American. Some could barely speak English, and many had accents so heavy I could not understand them. Prior to 2000, I was making $95.00 per hour. in 2015 when I retired, my rate was down to $65.00 per hour. I had to accept lower rates or be out of work. My last gig there were as many consultants as there were employees, and 70% were from foreign countries. Even many agencies were controlled by foreigners and if you were a citizen, they would give you an interview, but don’t think you’ll be hired anytime soon. I don’t know if I would advise a young American to get into the field today, you can make more money as a plumber, and electrician, a welder, or a mechanic, and start your own business.
LanceSoft CEO name is Anju Abel, surprise…. Located in Herndon, VA. Trump Admin should allow H1B visas in US Passports if it’s not implicitly allowed already and maintain the limit of visas issued. Is there a rule against US citizens from getting one? That would mess up the head-bobbers and traitorous hiring companies plans.
But but but Americans applying for those positions are experts on which pronoun to use when addressing people and on how many genders there are thanks to our el/hi and universities education programs.
If I hear a thick foreign accent I ask for an agent who speaks my language, English
That way I don’t have to guess what the person is trying to say
I usually get an American instead
I’ve been boldly doing so for several years
H1B assumes that there aren’t any Americans willing and able to do the work. But there are.
And if a company is willing and able to train foreign techies, they can certainly train Americans.
The fact that we haven’t severely limited the program is very disappointing to me. The program should be limited to only very senior people, and no company should be able to have more than a small handful of H1Bs on staff, and only for the two or three years it takes to train their American replacements.
The current differential for data center techs at a Fortune 500 tech company: US Contractors $38/hour. H1B Contractors (Infosys) $20/hour. There are other considerations but rarely talked about. The H1Bs generally have far better “soft skills” like showing up to work on time, respectful and deferential to managers/administrators. By and large they are very grateful to have the employment and it shows in their attitude. The H1Bs can be counted on to stay awhile as well. Most US contractors are looking to be a full time employee and as soon as they get an offer they are outta there.
You want bad code hire non-Americans. We spend half our time fixing offshored crap. And when you try and explain things to them, they cannot understand you.
The program is the problem. Firms want indentured servants whom they can pay less money. While the Trump fees will suck some of this attitude out of the program, the people doing the hiring overwhelmingly want their own kind and will default to that position once Trump or his like minded people are out of office.
The long-term solution is either to keep a substantial fee in place or require a premium (such as at least 10% of prevailing salary) be paid to foreign workers. Japan used the latter strategy when I worked there for 14 years. It not only helped close the skill gap and encourage more domestic workers to get the needed training, it ensured the foreign workers were grateful to the host country for the opportunity rather than resentful over being exploited.