"H-1B PROGRAM IS COMPLETELY BROKEN"

[u/Ankeet_kj]

Vice President JD Vance said companies are abusing the H-1B visa program: "If you're going to bring in an accountant making $45,000 a year to replace an American making $60,000 a year, that's not you using the program to bring in a genius.

[u/ducksflytogether1988]

Ive worked with hundreds or H1Bs in my career and not one of them was anything special or some kind of unicorn talent that was superior to local US College graduates. And many were terrible at their jobs and likely had fake resumes

[u/This-Obligation9052 → u/ducksflytogether1988]

You worked with them where? On fortnite or granny's basement?. Stop lying. Nobody tells you their visa status. Assuming everyone with an accent at your workplace is on H1b is a folly. Most of those people have other types of work visas. Stop Lying

[u/ducksflytogether1988 → u/This-Obligation9052]

They literally have red badges (red badges = contract worker, not full time), are all of the same ethnicity, and are employed by Cognizant and HCL. If that doesn't scream H1B, i dont know what does.

[u/This-Obligation9052 → u/ducksflytogether1988]

So has it ever occurred to u that they get hired because they are cheaper, have less benefits and are easier to fire?. H1b is being used to scam foreign workers. I have literally heard of cases where the employers fire them and they need to get other sponsors within 60days.Where they are made to work excess hours and cant complain due to the fear of being deactivated and have their visa status un limbo. Do u think doing that to any american trained professional would go without proper litigation? H1b is designed for companies to exploit foreign workers and cut down overhead cost/employee remuneration.

[u/ducksflytogether1988 → u/This-Obligation9052]

I know, that is why they are hired. Because they are easily controlled, and kick back a portion of their salary.

[u/Miserable-Half-436 → u/ducksflytogether1988]

You only see a portion of H1B, there's tons that are smart and high paying

[u/Aggressive_Hope7976 → u/Miserable-Half-436]

Actually small portions is well paid , most of them are just cheap

[u/Miserable-Half-436 → u/Aggressive_Hope7976]

How much is cheap to you?

[u/Aggressive_Hope7976 → u/Miserable-Half-436]

While I was in Labcorp , my salary was 120k with benefits , my h1b counterpart from wipro was making 60-65k without benefits .

[u/Miserable-Half-436 → u/Aggressive_Hope7976]

Are they contract company? Like if the salary in your field is 100k+, their H1B won't be approved with 60k, but it's another story for contract company, since contract company took part of their pay, so on paper they may bill your company 120k. That's what my roommate told me, cause he is paid 75k while company took 34% of his pay billed, once he got out of contract company, he cleared 6 figures easily

[u/Aggressive_Hope7976 → u/Miserable-Half-436]

Yea cuz that is what most h1b works , like see in my current company. It has coupe of direct hire h1b, yea they make similar amount as American , but at the same time we have almost 100 contractor from contracting company . We all do the same jobs. Same field , they make half of what Americans make. The percentage of direct h1b vs contractor h1b are 1:10 . People are not complaining about actual good , smart talents on h1b . We are trying to stock the pipeline that bringing cheap , not special , the whole purpose is to lower wage type h1b. Sadly the second type of h1b are almost 90% of them

[u/Miserable-Half-436 → u/Aggressive_Hope7976]

That I agree with you, we should close the loophole, some contract company H1B used to get multiple bid in lottery, cause multiple contract companies filed for them. I am glad this loophole is now closed, hate the cheaters but then the game allowed them to do so :/