H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies

Re:H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies by mavelikara on Friday November 30, 2018 @08:26PM (#18574380)

You Infosys colleagues might be slightly underpaid than you, but not by much. But real cost saving Infosys offers to your employer is the team that works offshore. Your Infosys colleagues are acting as bridges between that team and yours.

Infosys made almost $11B in 2018. They are not going to sweat the salary of few H-1B engineers. If American engineers, or Indian ones having Green Card, will do the job - liaison the communication between onshore and offshore teams - they will hire those if H-1Bs are not available. Or, your employer might move the whole operation to India, laying off the onshore team.

TL;DR: You are probably barking up the wrong tree. The "cheap" H-1Bs you hear about are hired by American staffing companies, not outsourcers.

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Re:H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies by lawnchair_larry on Friday November 30, 2018 @11:02PM (#18575064)

I’ve seen the difference in pay, and it’s very large. They aren’t proxying offshore either. Not at the big tech companies who use them for staff augmentation anyway.

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Re:H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies by maxxxxx on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:23PM (#18574897)

We have both types. A lot of Indian contractors get paid very little money and they are often hired through two or three agencies that all take their cut. The Infosys guys are paid a little better but still under market and from what I have heard Infosys is slow in processing their green card application. I think in both cases it would be better if the H1 people didn't need a company sponsor but could change jobs easier and apply for visas themselves so they can't get held captive by the company.

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