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Are you suggesting that those companies don't know they're hiring H-1B workers? It just sort of happens to them?

If they offer below-market (for American workers) salaries and get no sufficiently-qualified domestic candidates, as they're required to promise they do, it's no surprise to anyone that they're hiring a ton of H-1Bs. They want that because they want to pay less.

I don't blame them for doing what's fiscally advantageous for the shareholders up till now -- but I think I'll be glad to see this change implemented, if it is, because I know companies write on those forms "domestic talent not found" when they know the truth is "domestic talent not available at the wages we'd like to pay".

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They also make hidden job postings and then say "look, no one applied except for H1B applicants!"

Hence https://jobs.now/

Get applying, every application sends a H1-B fraudster home (not, but we can wish).

H1B requires paying prevailing market wages.

You can argue that they can fight the inflation impact that way.

But I think you’re implying paying less than market rate which is simply not true.

If they’re bribing USCIS to get around this rule. That’s a different discussion.

FAANG offers sub market salaries? American citizens turn their nose at FAANG jobs because of the low pay?

What?

FAANG relative to FAANG, not FAANG relative to a barista at Starbucks. You get how this works right?

FAANG offers the exact same salaries to US citizens and those who need sponsorship. And speaking from personal experience, the majority of the Chinese and Indian immigrants at Meta are extremely talented and tremendously hard working. The best Americans are obsessed with startups and entrepreneurship and aren’t satisfied with being cogs in the machine the way H1B seekers are.

I’m not saying the system is perfect, we definitely need to work on clearing out these fraudulent consultancies and such. But FAANG H1Bs are good engineers and we would definitely be worse off without them. I much preferred the proposal to only allow H1B after a certain salary threshold of ~200-250k which seems like it would solve the issue.

The issue that needs fixing with the H1 program isn’t FAANG, it’s Infosys etc.

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