[Daishiman]

Well yeah. I went to a world-class research university in Latam. The brightest kids were making using of internships to Google, Microsoft and Meta a couple years before graduating and by then they already had a career path laid out for them in the Bay Area.

I'm sure a bunch of companies took advantage of the H1-B program, but without a doubt it took most of the best talent too.

[AdamN]

It's bifurcated. Big Tech used it to increase the labor pool local to their existing development centers. The consultancies used it to drive down unit costs.