H1b visas. Anyone else work in technology and see the issues with this program and outsourcing?
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Anonymous
IMO this is a clear problem of self-interest. The people that are supposed to be training us the Universities are more interested in hiring H-1B. The very professors that are supposed to be teaching us are only able to get green cards if they can prove there are no skilled professionals but wait how can that be possible haven't, they taught here for years. Doesn't make any sense. |
Anonymous
The U.S. tech sector keeps insisting it cannot find talent, but the data shows the opposite. The United States is producing more STEM graduates than the industry is willing to hire. The National Science Foundation reports that only about half of U.S. STEM graduates work in STEM fields. The Economic Policy Institute has repeatedly found no evidence of a broad tech labor shortage, and wages for many software roles have been flat or declining after inflation. If there were a real shortage, wages would be rising, not falling. At the same time, the number of H1B applications has exploded. USCIS data shows that petitions jumped from 200,000 in 2019 to more than 750,000 in 2023. That is not a sign of a shortage. It is a sign of companies chasing cheaper and more easily controlled labor. Multiple studies, including research from the National Bureau of Economic Research, have documented that firms use visa programs to reduce labor costs and weaken worker bargaining power. This has real consequences for the United States. American tech workers face longer job searches, more layoffs, and fewer entry‑level opportunities. Students see this and adjust. Computer science enrollment growth has slowed at several universities, and surveys from the Computing Research Association show declining confidence among U.S. students about long‑term career stability in tech. When young Americans decide that STEM is not worth the risk, the country loses future engineers, researchers, and innovators. There is also a growing disconnect between the U.S. education system and the tech industry. Universities invest heavily in training domestic students, but companies increasingly bypass them in favor of offshore teams or temporary visa labor. This breaks the pipeline between American institutions and American industry. It also undermines the long‑term national interest. A country cannot maintain technological leadership if its own citizens are discouraged from entering the field. Dialing back H1B abuse and offshoring is not about shutting out global talent. It is about restoring balance. The United States needs a tech labor market that rewards domestic training, encourages students to pursue STEM, and ensures that companies invest in the workforce of the country they operate in. Without that, the U.S. risks hollowing out its own talent base while pretending the problem does not exist. |
Anonymous
| We don't need them |
Anonymous
Apparently Trump doesn’t agree with you. He’s had over a year to fix this. |
Anonymous
The bar so low that he's still the best for the job though. |
Anonymous
| If we don't have workforce educated and trained for these jobs than that need to he changed, more work visas aren't a solution. |
Anonymous
Agree. I don’t believe it of course. But agree |
Anonymous
Op here. You are lying. I can’t decide if it’s on purpose or unintentional. You do not try to hire Americans. Tell me what jobs you are currently hiring for and where you have looked in the US? Let’s start. AI engineers. Go |
Anonymous
https://www.betaboom.com/magazine/article/american-immigrants-built-generation-defining-tech Take a look at these. Foreign born American inventors have always been critical to American success. As far back as Nikola Tesla. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2023/01/12/highly-inventive-immigrants-also-make-natives-more-innovative/ |
Anonymous
Hey troll/fake hiring manager. We are not talking about not allowing any foreign born people in the US. We are discussing offshoring huge swaths of American industry at the expense of our young people who are also being saddled with educational debt, poor health care and everything else this country brings |
Anonymous
Anonymous
Sure, a few people. Big whoop. Your claim was we used foreign talent to invent the microchip, the internet, integrated circuits, and the personal computer, because we don't have tbe talent domestically. And you're wrong, on both counts. H1B and offshoring in tech are being used by American corporations to turn a bigger profit at the expense of American workers. |
Anonymous
I would love to prevent off shoring. But think about the realities for a minute. You are a multinational company. You, as an executive, have a target to hit on productivity and you are given a budget. Btw, this is directly tied to your share prices which is all your CEO and the Board worries about. You can get decent engineers in the US. But they are scattered around and are expensive. You can go to Bangalore, where your company has a building, and get competent engineers at a 1/4 the cost. These folks aren’t ever going to make it past the senior manager level. You hire in the US to find those kids who you want to become Directors and Senior Directors and VPs in the long run. So what is the VP to do? And how does the US by policy prevent multinational companies from hiring labor internationally? |
Anonymous
Foreign talent coupled with American talent and US laws that encourage entrepreneurship is what allows all those things to be born in the US. You can’t remove any part of that system and expect it to work. |
Anonymous
Well, the American part is being removed, because, according to the Hiring Manager PP, Americans aren't "rock star geeks". Even though its been demonstrated that they are. |