<story><title>Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881245867/trump-expected-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-until-end-of-year</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jusonchan81</author><text>I guess this is indeed an issue. I’m a manager and I am trying to hire. 100% I’d rather find a person who can start in a couple of weeks than several months for a candidate who needs immigration. But there are rarely any local applicants and even when there are they don’t make in the interview. We pay in excess of 300k for all roles so it’s not like we are trying to find cheap talent.</text></item><item><author>dx87</author><text>If H-1B visas were being used how they were intended, they would be a good thing, but we often see them used as a way to get cheap labor, or even directly replace American workers.  The company I work at has H-1B junior web developers, hardly &amp;quot;very niche, hard to fill&amp;quot; positions that they can&amp;#x27;t find any qualified Americans to do.</text></item><item><author>awillen</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s just silly... even if you&amp;#x27;re a nationalist, isn&amp;#x27;t the prospect of bringing over talented people from foreign countries to work in America and help our companies profit plus deprive their home countries of their skills a really, really good thing?</text></item><item><author>BolexNOLA</author><text>This has gotten very old very fast (beyond the obvious cruelty). I have several friends who keep watching their colleagues just have to up and leave over this and it’s causing a ton of issues for businesses that employ folks on work visas in general. It’s just disruptive to be disruptive&amp;#x2F;feed the base.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>P_I_Staker</author><text>Something isn&amp;#x27;t adding up here, even in areas with high COL people are clamoring for jobs like that. I&amp;#x27;m not saying it never happens, something just doesn&amp;#x27;t sound right.&lt;p&gt;Also, the vast majority of people on H1-Bs that I&amp;#x27;ve worked with are quite... average. It&amp;#x27;s nothing against them, but I doubt they were blowing people away in the interview. Many of them do have better attitudes, though.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not to say that there aren&amp;#x27;t exceptional examples, or a given candidate was bad, but we absolutely could of hired some kid from university, or a mid-senior level from a US company. They just tend to have more demands.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not exactly a secret the main reason for the program, is to lower wages here. ie. keep the wages of nationals in check. Of course, you also get access to a better deal on labor, and people that want the job very badly.&lt;p&gt;I could be off base, but many of the people I&amp;#x27;ve worked with on H1-Bs simply cause less political problems. It&amp;#x27;s not necessarily a cultural thing, as I&amp;#x27;m including many different countries. They have the threat of deportation hanging over their head.</text></comment>
<story><title>Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881245867/trump-expected-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-until-end-of-year</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jusonchan81</author><text>I guess this is indeed an issue. I’m a manager and I am trying to hire. 100% I’d rather find a person who can start in a couple of weeks than several months for a candidate who needs immigration. But there are rarely any local applicants and even when there are they don’t make in the interview. We pay in excess of 300k for all roles so it’s not like we are trying to find cheap talent.</text></item><item><author>dx87</author><text>If H-1B visas were being used how they were intended, they would be a good thing, but we often see them used as a way to get cheap labor, or even directly replace American workers.  The company I work at has H-1B junior web developers, hardly &amp;quot;very niche, hard to fill&amp;quot; positions that they can&amp;#x27;t find any qualified Americans to do.</text></item><item><author>awillen</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s just silly... even if you&amp;#x27;re a nationalist, isn&amp;#x27;t the prospect of bringing over talented people from foreign countries to work in America and help our companies profit plus deprive their home countries of their skills a really, really good thing?</text></item><item><author>BolexNOLA</author><text>This has gotten very old very fast (beyond the obvious cruelty). I have several friends who keep watching their colleagues just have to up and leave over this and it’s causing a ton of issues for businesses that employ folks on work visas in general. It’s just disruptive to be disruptive&amp;#x2F;feed the base.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hckr_news</author><text>Maybe your recruiting to get interviewers into your pipeline and the interview process just isn&amp;#x27;t that good. Or perhaps nobody wants to work at your company. Bad management? Bad glassdoor reviews? Don&amp;#x27;t engage with the local tech scene?</text></comment>