Boloney. H1b visas are an arbitrage game. Big firms bring in lower paid Indian workers, force them to work like slave labor, selling the hours and pocketing the money.
“Big firms bring in lower paid Indian workers, force them to work like slave labor, selling the hours and pocketing the money.”
BINGO! While I was raising my young daughter, I worked in the aquatics department of a luxury health club here in central florida. Many of my students were Indians in the tech field (several big companies partnered with the gym, so their eployees got reduced rate memberships.)
Many of them worked for EA, but also Symantec, etc. They were all on H1B visas and as it turned out — most of them were making less than 35K a year, and especially at EA, were forced to work horrifying hours — and were often bullied into sleeping in their offices during “crunch” time.
I asked about getting hired as a tech writer at EA, and a handful of my students simply said, “You don’t want to work there.” Women and minorities were highly prized, but treated like slave labor.
However, my old white guy programmer brother — high six figures.