[angkor]

I know of a company holding 60 H1-B visas effective 2 years ago. Those visas represent the entire development staff in Silicon Valley and Austin, all making $55 to $65K annually (which in not the going rate for Sr. Software Developers in Silicon Valley).

So after 2 years of a 100 percent H1-B dev staff, what do you think management did? They looked at every other employee (customer support, sales engineering, etc) and did a mass layoff based solely on compensation level. That is, if you make more than $X, you're fired.

Funny what H1-B labor does to management thinking.

[Baseballguy]

What is sad about all this is, money. All this does in drain the dollar from the USA market to other countries. These people send money home. They dont buy American products!

I guess what will happen will there wont be any Americans with any money and the major companies will leave. Which will open up a market for small manufactures to build locally and start all over.

Or those countries now getting $5k a year will want $6k next year ect till everything balances out and everyone will be making $35k!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Funny what H1-B labor does to management thinking.

They thought wrong.

Stipulations of an H1-B and L1 visa is that the incoming laborer does not displace an American worker. Or am I wrong? They should be held accountacle for this.

[Dialup Llama]

>So after 2 years of a 100 percent H1-B dev staff, what do you think management did? They looked at every other employee (customer support, sales engineering, etc) and did a mass layoff based solely on compensation level. That is, if you make more than $X, you're fired.

I take that this firing by compensation level did not include executive level employees.