If the answer is in the affirmative then we need to study and address why that is.
If not, then I'm curious how many qualified Americans are being pushed out of (ore prevented from entering) the high tech job market by H-1B applicants.
You really have to have solid, engaged recruiting and screening processes in place to filter the wheat from the chaff with H1B's.
I would interview 10 H1B's, and then one domestic candidate, and the domestic candidate would outperform every time.
This is obv anecdotal, but I would not be surprised if this pattern exists across the entire H1B pool.
We do hire some H1B's, and there are some incredibly talented candidates, but only after great expense and time invested in screening and interviewing.
Do you ask people their visa status during interview?
If you do not ask them about visa status, then how do you know they weren't a domestic candidate? Is it a judgement based on race/skin-color/accent?
If you do ask them this question, How do you keep that information from influencing your decision in the interview?
If you close that pipeline, you'll lose those students, and then you have to find more funding, because international students usually subsidize local students.
[1]: https://isss.temple.edu/faculty-staff-and-researchers/intern...
That and the H1B issue and American's not having jobs at American companies. Something isn't right.
I agree the US could do more to take advantage of its position to benefit the average American, but torching exactly what put the country in that position is short-sighted at best, categorically stupid at worst.
In state $30,154 Out of state $53,638 International $54,814
This incentivizes them to keep more slots open for those high dollar students making it even tougher to develop a domestic workforce.
At one of my grad school classes, the prof could have taught the class in Chinese had it not been for me in there. And that was in the late 1990s.
I've been all over this issue over and over again at multiple different companies and it's always the same thing--the resume has to have X, Y, and Z or the person is overlooked, despite them being more than capable of becoming skilled at X, Y, Z, K, W, R, you name it. Time and time again! And it's even worse in 2025 because now every product has 2-3 other competing products that do the exact same thing and we're supposed to be experts at all of them!
I’ve hired people for a decade in tech and through that period people have been bellyaching about this stuff throughout.
The absolute truth is that if you can’t hit $500k annual income in 5 years despite trying to do so, you’re not good enough.
The H-1B workers I know are making millions. If you’re getting pushed out by them it’s because American competitiveness is enabled by this. And I care a lot more about what’s good for America as a whole than trying to protect someone’s income.
Uncharitably, it sounds like you think of your nation as a generic economic zone whose growth you want to continually increase at all costs, regardless of the fate of its citizens. But what is a nation, if not the people that comprise it?
But one nation, alone, fights Humanity's cause. Trump et al have cast off the mantle, but it's only another 3.5 years and we have a shot at donning it again. The nation is not for the people - or we would simply rapaciously consume its resources to feed the present. The people of the nation are not for the nation or we would consume them to fuel the engine. The nation and the people are both there to advance the principles of the group into the future. And I believe America's principles deserve to exist into perpetuity so long as they adapt to meet shifting weather.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
I would encourage you to examine your statements on rapacious consumption of resources and people as well.
America's cost of living crisis is in large part due to the huge carrying cost of all that graft--it wasn't illegal, mind you, just unethical.