infinity ag said:
Just saw this on Linkedin.
I'd rather Lindsey in the US get a job than Rajesh or Chang. Someone qualified like this should not be homeless in America while immigrants make merry. It's not because Lindsey is "lazy" like some of posters opine. And no, she should be required to do HVAC or become a plumber to survive when her skillset is something else.
If Lindsey gets a job, she pays taxes and the money is used for local infra. If Rajesh/Chang get jobs, they send a portion back to their countries and we lose it forever.
I have been in situations in the past where I show up for an interview and the interviewers are basically yawning through it. Then I don't get the job and find out (through an employee friend) that the job posting was fake, they had an H1B candidate lined up and I was among the Americans interviewed so they can report to the Govt that they could not find anyone and had to hire Rajesh (for low wages).
Our leaders have failed us and we have quietly accepted this as inevitable.
President Trump, the eyes of America are upon you...
I've hired hundreds of H-1's and never had to interview a US citizen in order to do so so your story seems awfully suspicious. I always prefer to hire citizens or at least GC holders because it is less hassle, less expensive (H-1s cost thousands of dollars to transfer, a lot more to initiate and a pain in the ass), and they take time. Even an expedited transfer is no less than 6 weeks and often longer. If I have a citizen I don't have to deal with sponsoring I will always hire them. In the end though it's about skills and ability that match what is needed. I hire for companies that are technology driven and pay very well though and they only care about getting the strongest technical person they can.
The woman's story is sad and it may be true. Being a Project Manager with super generic skills like she states (she doesn't mention an industry, companies she worked for, types of projects, etc which are red flags) are less than a dime a dozen. I hate to even open PM reqs because I get flooded. BTW, PM's tend to be citizens and female more than other engineering roles (assuming she is an engineer, she doesn't say). I seriously doubt as a PM she is losing out to jobs to H-1s, if for no other reason communication skills and people skills are key with PM jobs and that obviously favors a citizen.
I'm all for reforming the system and especially going after the people trying to defraud it or abuse it but that only happens if we actually understand the real problems (and there are definitely real problems with the lottery being a significant one). I worry about the number of foreign students in tech in proportion to citizens. I worry about companies having no limits on the number of student visas they can hire as interns since internships are the gateway to experience. I worry about college admissions being so active in recruiting foreign students at the graduate level and using it as a funding source they have become dependent on. I think consulting companies like Tata and Cognizant should be audited and fined into oblivion and no company should be able to have more than 25% of workers on visa.
I also think it is insane that we obsess over trying to push women into engineering and CS jobs often at the expense of men when those women are more likely to end up leaving the field or become PMs like the woman you had an example of above because few women like the tedious detail work, long hours, and lack of social interaction that is what most of those jobs end up being. We need to encourage more US men to get involved in Engineering and CS yet instead they are limited, especially by college admissions and even in High School they will see women and girls with all kinds of encouragement and special attention they will have to work much harder to earn if they are even able to.
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