He found another candidate which could do the job. This finding makes it a federal crime to recommand the current H1B employee for a green card.

I understand now. See above.

Omg 80% of comments in this thread are so confidently wrong it’s insane. Fyi tp is actually doing everything by the book

Yes, it's been better explained now.

I guess this is a case of "don't hate the player, hate the game." although the question remains why they filled the role with an H1B candidate in the first place if they could find locals that could do the job. That piece is clearly unethical and done only for wage suppression.

More like a case of “perhaps dont make judgements if your knowledge on the subject is aprox zero”. Again, same question as upthread - show me how prevailing wage is suppressing the market. The h1b could also been issued years ago like in 2021 for example

Have you heard of "Supply and Demand"?

Ah yes, if only we could mint experienced devs from thin air, your model would be perfectly sound!

Or maybe, devs could move from Company A to Company B that would pay them more money. What a terrible world that would be to live in.

Or companies in, say, SF could let people work remotely from Pittsburgh.

And what would company A do at that point?

> Or companies in, say, SF could let people work remotely from Pittsburgh.

Hold up, didn’t you say it was “clearly unethical” if local devs are available?

OMG - there would be a bidding war for developers! VCs and Shareholders might have to take less profit so they could pay their developers more!! What a dystopian future.

And as far as I can tell, Pittsburgh is in the same country as SF.

According to gadders the definition of ethical is apparently “what’s good for gadders personally”. I don’t see anything ethical about your take - i see nationalism and greed. Misguided at that btw because skilled immigration demonstrably is good for us and good for wage growth. I asked you to prove otherwise and you just gave me some econ 101 vibes crap

>>According to gadders the definition of ethical is apparently “what’s good for gadders personally”.

According to gadders the definition of ethical is apparently “what’s good for the host nation's developers”. Fixed that for you.

I don't think workers wanting to maximise their pay is greed.

Oh relative scarcity only works for corporations, I understand your worldview perfectly now! jackass

usually, they find this local person later. But is it right to replace then? Wage suppression but usually H-1Bs and other work immigration visas are not lower paid at big tech co