H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads

Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by yholio on Friday January 25, 2019 @11:54PM (#19004835)

I disagree, if you can find cheap programmers in Des Moines, Iowa, then by all means expand there, spread the love within the country before going for import labour. As for bubbles, that's the point, there shouldn't be any if labour is available and willing to come in.

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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by tejaswiy on Saturday January 26, 2019 @01:21AM (#19005109)

Most IT / h1 roles are not based out of the Bay Area [1]. Significant amounts of H1b population goes to doing cookie cutter consulting projects spread across the country and setting a 150k min on the wage means that you won't be able to hire H1s at all in other parts of the country. Obviously this creates a lot of demand for American programmers and personal experience suggests that this will cause a labor shortage.

[1] https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2017-H1B-Visa-Category.as...

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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by akhilcacharya on Saturday January 26, 2019 @02:32AM (#19005312)

I think it’ll just be more likely that they’ll hire 5 30k offshore consultants instead of 1 local immigrant.

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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by zeckalpha on Saturday January 26, 2019 @12:49AM (#19004993)

Or pay people in Des Moines $150k+

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