H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms

Re:H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms by dvndvn on Friday February 10, 2017 @10:17AM (#13615920)

Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are hugely profitable corporations they pay top dollar to any talent, whether its domestic or international. So the argument Indian outsourcing firms should pay similar salaries to every employee is like, asking every US company to pay on par with Google/Microsoft employees, I guess.

There is something to be done to the US working class for sure. But when US wants to be the world leader selling high value goods in every country, can it afford to isolate itself from the world's talent?

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Re:H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms by ryanhuff on Friday February 10, 2017 @10:31AM (#13616017)

H1B's should go for talent that you cannot reasonably find domestically. What you describe seems to imply that price should also be a consideration, i.e. Talent that you cannot reasonably find domestically for the price you are willing to pay. To me, that is abusing the system.

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Re:H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms by bonzini on Friday February 10, 2017 @10:43AM (#13616100)

The question is why do the outsourcing companies need to hire so many foreigners---other than to pay them nothing and screw up the H1B lottery for everyone else, of course.

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