Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs

Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by mdorazio on Saturday September 09, 2023 @08:35AM (#37444605)

Here's how it works in practice: You create a job posting that's buried on your careers page and has so many very specific requirements for an underleveled role (because it's custom-made for the H1B person you want to hire) that no local worker can possibly meet them all. Then you half-heartedly phone screen a few people to check the box before throwing up your hands and saying, "We tried and weren't able to find any local workers; we have no choice but to hire an H1B!"

This could all be fixed by making H1B visas an auction system, but all the H1B legislation changes I've seen have been half-hearted at best.

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by delfinom on Saturday September 09, 2023 @08:54AM (#37444788)

Because both political parties have donors that benefit from H1Bs and it's beyond just tech companies. Even the angry orange man has his hotels applying for H1B visas. Fucking hotels.

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by Consultant32452 on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:04AM (#37444894)

The public's lack of understanding of the real motivations of political/business leaders with regards to immigration policy is like a masterclass on propaganda and brainwashing.

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by oceanplexian on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:06AM (#37444914)

Trump actually tried to end H1B, and suspended the H1B program with an executive order. One of his policy decisions I support. Actually the entire platform was centered around immigration.

As soon as it happened though, there were news stories left and right about how "Immigration is our strength" and "The US is a country founded by immigrants". All these sob stories about why we need cheap, exploitable labor to undercut American workers.

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by manuelabeledo on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:32AM (#37445190)

Trump didn't try to "end" the program. His administration straight up wanted to close the borders to interns, skilled workers, and their relatives. That goes far beyond H-1B visas.

> All these sob stories about why we need cheap, exploitable labor to undercut American workers.

This is not how the H-1B program works.

Also, they didn't try to stop agricultural workers from entering the US. If you really want to focus on "cheap labor", you may want to start there.

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by ianhawes on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:23AM (#37445089)

There are actually even more arcane requirements like placing a job ad in a Sunday newspaper with a certain distribution. The ads have bizarre keywords that make it borderline impossible to determine the real job. Those regulations are controlled by the DOL.

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by dixie_land on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:47AM (#37445360)

> arcane requirements

One of which is some sort of a posted positions/wages or something at work place. ( it doesn't have to be prominent but it has to be there, usually it's in the same forgotten corner where they post labor right rules etc., usually around the water cooler I guess )

During Covid, our company told H1Bs to print those out and put them up in their kitchen fridges since it was their temporary "worksite" XD

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by imwillofficial on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:26AM (#37445120)

Or just getting rid of H1B all together and nurture that talent in-country.

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by enlightenedfool on Saturday September 09, 2023 @09:50AM (#37445394)

Why would companies take the time, money, effort to nurture when talent is readily available as H1bs? The mostly American shareholders don’t approve that.

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by imwillofficial on Sunday September 10, 2023 @01:59PM (#37458292)

Because it’s better long term for a company?

Short term thinking is why we are always on the knife’s edge of crisis.

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Re:Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US... by notsurenymore on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:58PM (#37449073)

One of my friends saw a job the other day. It was a non academic, non R&D, run of the mill marketing position that required… a PhD???. The pay was also pretty pathetic with the start of the range probably not much more than a PhD stipend. I was wondering at first if credential inflation had reached its peak, but someone else suggested it was H1B bait.

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