Cruz must have a flippin’ death wish. A friend is also an information engineer in the STEM field. He says there is no shortage, and he says that as a participant in interviews of these H1Bs that they are (1)deficient in English no matter what their rating says, and (2) they are deficient in tech knowledge no matter what their rating says. His position is that the English issue alone makes their tech knowledge inapplicable at a 50%+ level.
I get the feeling that one of the principle reasons why my son survived the big tech engineer layoff at his company recently is BECAUSE HE IS STUDYING CHINESE.
I suspect they figure that once he has it down pat, they will use him to train the replacements.
The process of looking for American hireables has become a farcical Kabuki dance. The H1Bs look wonderful on the balance sheet today. We can thank uber-progressive regimes for making it of very little attractiveness to look at balance sheets of tomorrow. When Calvinball is the rule you quit trying to project anything.