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Then there's companies where they are software companies, and they must innovate. This is both your big companies like Google and Facebook, but also lots of smaller companies, especially startups, and everything in between like OpenTable and DealerSocket (you probably use them to schedule your auto service). Here you need your people to get real innovators, to design easy-to-use, scalable, and secure systems. This is a much more difficult challenge. These jobs are best for the top 10% of engineers, be they US-born or H-1Bs. At companies, like this, it's a rigorous interview process and only a few % of those who apply will be offered jobs.

I've been in both types of companies, but currently I'm in the second type. We tend to hire more American-raised engineers because the American culture of "independence" also means the engineers are willing to challenge the status quo and think outside the box. That's what I need no my team. We can also find those among H-1Bs (especially if looking at the best of the best), but it's less common, particularly in Asian cultures where for example respecting your elders above all is a big thing. I like someone that will challenge my technical decisions so we can hash it out.
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I don’t know what reality you live in, but let’s look at the facts.

1.  We are talking about our kids with CS majors not finding jobs.

2.  The silicon valley has already been taken over by H 1 B visas which is mostly Indians.

Look at FAANG employees.[b] I interviewed with Microsoft years ago and out of 8 people only one was not Indian.[/b]

You will not find a new job yourself.

3.  The H 1 B people’s salaries are very high, they are in well above 100K.

Why are giving away 150K, 200K jobs to foreigners while our CS graduates can not find work?[/quote]

I am an immigrant myself (not Indian) and [b]Americans are blissfully unaware how the rest of the world thinks. The first thing immigrants from my own country do when they arrive to the US is to seek other immigrants from the same country[/b]. This is their social network and this is how they look for jobs, food, friends, spouses, doctors etc. My husband and I have never done this and are a big exception.[/quote]
Huh? 5 pages of this thread argue that Indians only hire other Indians. We get it. [/quote]

It's not just Indians. Most people around the world are pulling for their own.[/quote]

Great! But in America we are not supposed to filter out the applicants with "funny names". That would go down poorly. Are you saying everyone else does so we should too? Sounds like it. [/quote]

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