No they don’t. And the companies in the USA that hire them deliberately post jobs greatly inflating the requirements so that they can hire an Indian who is nowhere near the job requirements so they can pay them substantially below what they would need to pay an American.
I’ve only been witnessing this for 23 YEARS!
At my company now, we have an American citizen who would be perfect as a business analyst, but they won’t hire her because they would need to pay her 20K more cause she is an American.
It is nothing but a cheap labor program for India to line corporation pockets. Has been that way since the beginning.
Do your homework.
“It is nothing but a cheap labor program for India to line corporation pockets. Has been that way since the beginning.”
I spent 25 years in Silicon Valley in senior Procurement positions, and what you say is the absolute truth. They are not filling positions for which there are no qualified US citizens. As you point out, this is just a massive attempt at saving labor costs. And it’s abetted by the number of senior people in these companies who are Indians. Whenever there is an attempt to curtail the H-1B Visa “program,” out come the crying towels about how they will be decimated because they won’t be able to find acceptable Americans to take their jobs. The Silicon Valley is perhaps the biggest “sweat shop” in the world. We had to “teach” the Asian clean room workers how to use the toilet, because all of them were simply pissing on the sets! That’s just how “talented” some of these H-1B visa holders are.
> is nothing but a cheap labor program for India to line corporation pockets
Yep. See “labor arbitrage.” Icorporatespeak for “crush wages; destroy economic mobility” aka neo-feudalism.