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sownkun | 7 months ago

H-1B for top talent in fields like AI makes sense. But in most cases it's not being used for that. It's just being used to fill generic software jobs that can be filled by US citizens/residents.

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dangus|7 months ago

Those top tier researchers are the kind of people the program is legitimately meant for, but for every one of those there are probably 10 or 100 H-1B contractors being paid below-market wages resulting in underemployment of US citizens, especially early career graduates.

The program is also used to employ people that won’t quit when they are mistreated because their family’s existence in the country depends on continued employment.

lokar|7 months ago

Even more basic IT jobs, no programming at all

spacemadness|7 months ago

I’ve worked with a lot of backend and mobile devs that are on H1-B. They were solid for the most part but they aren’t exactly niche skills.