The job positions posted on the Qualcomm site in 2001 were present for the specific purpose of satisfying the requirement to attempt to hire an American citizen for the job before being permitted to hire an H1B.
My company is offering nice referral fees for finding good quality employees too. Most of the positions are only open to a U.S. citizen who can acquire a Secret or better clearance. We value the opportunity to include talented employees from around the globe, thus we have offices all over the world. The most recent offices have been opened in India.
My current project includes a subcontractor whose employees are nearly 100% Indian. The guys are brilliant. They work from an office in Chicago. The only complexity with these guys is finding a restaurant that caters to the varied dietary proclivities of our project team.
The only jobs my company is offering referral fees for do not require clearances. Someone from an H-1B country will not have the experience we need. We are looking for people with 5 years of experience in high-end ASIC or microprocessor design in a team design environment. You are mostly going to find that experience in the U.S. You can find some in Japan and Israel, and maybe in Taiwan. Israel and Taiwan would be the only likely H-1B sources. But you will not find this experience in China, Russia, or India.