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Re:H-1B abuse: Bay Area tech workers from India paid a pitta... by checker659 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:39AM (#16974357)
Also last quarter, 65% of Apple's revenue was from outside America. And, yet, looking at their total H1B numbers, only about 9% of their employees are H1B holders.

If American companies earn money from the rest of the world, is it really that unfair that they hire a small percent of international people to work at their company?

1) https://www.immihelp.com/employer/APPLE+INC/205136/applicati...

2) https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/02/apple-reports-first-q...

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Re:H-1B abuse: Bay Area tech workers from India paid a pitta... by diebeforei485 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:10AM (#16974508)
The 9% only includes H-1B folks who are directly employed by Apple.

Apple also has hundreds of contractors employed by Tata, Infosys etc on H-1B's, in Apple's internal IT department ("IS&T"). These people are paid less than the 9% of people above, and would not count towards Apple's own H-1B numbers.

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Re:H-1B abuse: Bay Area tech workers from India paid a pitta... by checker659 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:14AM (#16974534)
Like how many?
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Re:H-1B abuse: Bay Area tech workers from India paid a pitta... by abc_lisper on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @03:33AM (#16974880)
3000 if I remember right
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