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Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by anticapit on Sunday January 31, 2021 @06:57AM (#25978179)
This is exactly how American companies game the h1b visa system. When I worked at AVG we would write job requirement so specific to an Israel developers who worked for one of our subsidiaries that it was clear no other human being in the world could qualify for it.
Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by praeclarum on Sunday January 31, 2021 @09:15AM (#25978960)
What you call gaming, I call working around the government’s idiotic visa requirements.
Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by sokoloff on Sunday January 31, 2021 @10:17AM (#25979400)
That depends on what you see as the purpose of the visa requirements. If the purpose is to support economic prospects for American citizens and current residents (which seems like a completely valid purpose of government), then putting hurdles to ensure the job opening was “shopped” to qualified existing authorized workers seems pretty reasonable.

(I should clarify that I’m fully in favor of immigration programs that serve to increase the density of highly qualified individuals in the US and to fill positions which would otherwise go vacant. If as a small side-effect, those programs depress wages via increased supply, that’s still an excellent trade for the population. I am not in favor of visa programs substantially/primarily aimed at decreasing wages.)

Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by 1cvmask on Sunday January 31, 2021 @10:45AM (#25979586)
Increased supply of labor depresses wages ceteris paribus.

That is why George W Bush and older generation Republicans always supported legal AND illegal immigration. Their constituents were the businesss that thrived and made more profits from a cheaper laborforce.

The Democrats were historically hostile to immigration because their base was the working class. Now that Wall Street and Big Business has gone Democratic since Bill Clinton and the New Democrats there will be more supply of labor and thus lower wages ceteris paribus.

Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by gnu8 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @10:56AM (#25979686)
> ceteris paribus

Today I learned another useful latin expression.

Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by GizmoSwan on Sunday January 31, 2021 @08:56AM (#25978830)
Working for a subsidiary has a preferred status for getting a work permit in US.

It is called L-1 Intra-Company Transfer Visa: L-1A and L-1B for transfer of managers and specialists

https://workpermit.com/immigration/usa/employees-guide-us-im...

Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by da02 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @07:50AM (#25978425)
Why Israeli developers? Just out of curiosity, do you have any recommendations for anti-virus software for mobile or for desktops?
Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by anticapit on Sunday January 31, 2021 @11:27AM (#25979913)
Oh just in this case I was working at a security company and everybody we imported were from Israel. I’ve worked st 3 security companies and they all either had Israeli offices or had acquired Israeli security startups. It just seems to be a thing there.
Re:CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abando... by dalbasal on Sunday January 31, 2021 @08:09AM (#25978530)
I don't think he meant israeli developers in general. Specific people.