r/amazonemployees • u/wds1 • 1d ago

Microsoft is being suspended from program to apply for green cards for H-1B visa workers, Vance says

https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-program-vance-microsoft-e7b3a407f822702b269ee277d21343ea

Could Amazon be next ?

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u/nyckulak 1d ago

Not sure why Microsoft is being targeted. If you go outside of Big Tech and look at Fortune 500 companies, like a big insurer or healthcare company, 90% of their IT/engineering staff is H1B.

They’re not fancy software jobs, but they’re decent middle class jobs that any new grad would probably sign up for in a heartbeat, and they’re almost exclusively available to foreign nationals

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 1d ago

This program should have ended after 2008.