U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers

Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by niyazpk on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:03PM (#19041926)

I am wondering how not having H1B could have helped the Disney employees though. If Disney wants to cut costs and hire cheaper labor (presumably why they hired H1Bs? I don't know), they could as well move the jobs offshore. Now the US is losing out on much more than just the jobs. What am I missing here?

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by maximente on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:27PM (#19042049)

the whole idea of "just moving the jobs offshore" doesn't really come out to be as simple as you have equated here. there's often time zone differences, cultural difference, a simple inability to do work (e.g. anything requiring access to physical infrastructure, any client-facing meetings, etc.)

it's not like you can flip a switch and get a fully functioning setup, even with something like development.

we've seen this charade with foxconn, amazon, etc. turns out that the whole "highest bidder competitions" turn out to be not-so-thinly veiled con jobs where basically everyone but the corp loses aside from some marginal people like property holders.

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by niyazpk on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:29PM (#19042060)

I was under the impression that Amazon has a large portion of its engineering talent outside the US.

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by sudosteph on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @11:56PM (#19042467)

Who told you that? That was not my experience at all working there a few years back. Even for global teams like AWS engineering support, the US offices easily tripled the international ones in number of engineers.

I knew exactly one team based in Germany, but that was only because AWS acquired that product and team.

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by maximente on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:36PM (#19042092)

that's a pretty nice red herring you've introduced there my friend!

you haven't addressed any of the points i've brought up, but instead introduced a very tangential (possibly true) fact.

reflect for a moment on what i've said above. you are introducing a dichotomy that isn't accurate and justifying it by saying "something is better than nothing", which is the same corporate rationale for having a .000001% tax rate, states going crazy to attract huge companies, and so forth.

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by treis on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:15PM (#19041986)

The options aren't immigrants or offshore. Yes, some jobs will be lost to offshore but some won't. From the perspective of American workers, even if 90% go offshore it's better than 100% going to immigrants.

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