here's one specific to me: we said we offer a visa but only because so we can hire immigrant that are already on a visa sponsored from another company and need to retain sponsorship as we poach them

I honestly wonder how much time, energy, and resources are wasted on that type of process across the US. Direct placement isn't necessarily a bad thing, I don't know why organizations don't just do that.

Maybe it's to spread the fault around if it goes bad?

did one of these a while ago and they even told me during the interview. It took the pressure off I suppose ;)

Literally half the jobs out there!

Yuuuuup