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H1B's should be reserved for subject matter experts, innovators, field experts - as opposed to every shmuck with a masters or bs degree in CS or engineering.

All those consulting firms like Tata Consulting Services are gaming the H1B process, middle manning the employees, and in result Facebook, Home Depot, and others hire them for 1/3 or 1/2 less.

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> All those consulting firms like Tata Consulting Services are gaming the H1B process, middle manning the employees, and in result Facebook, Home Depot, and others hire them for 1/3 or 1/2 less.

This tells me you have no clue what you're talking about

This tells me you are unaware of the practice of contracting programmers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/09/tech-co...

You really believe Google and Facebook are hiring SWEs and paying them 1/2 of what they pay Americans? Yes contractors are a thing, but the impact is being way overstated.

I have been targeted (for software development roles) by firms who contract for Google (and, I would assume, other FAANG companies) with hourly rates quoted below $100 per hour.

How about highly trained individuals who are willing to do high-paying work for which it is hard to find US workers? Doesn't really match any of {subject matter experts, innovators, field experts}

I'm talking lawyers and bankers and whatever else you want to throw in the mix

> in result Facebook, Home Depot, and others hire them for 1/3 or 1/2 less.

One of these is not like the other. Facebook pays extremely well even for H1Bs, not many come close to it in the industry.

These people are not paid by Facebook, but by Tata - they are contractors.

This article is about Facebook hiring H1Bs as full time employees. You can't sponsor green card for your contractors. Also Facebook doesn't hire a lot of contractors compared to other big tech companies.

Yes, but the comment you are responding to is about Tata middle-manning H1B holders who then get paid less.

Alternatively, hiring internationally should be made a lot easier for highly technical roles. Facebook pays its foreign hires the same as Americans, so as to retain them. Making it easier to hire the most suited person (without thinking about nationality) would make more sense than making them dance around legal barriers like they currently have to.

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