In Silicon Valley, Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Limits
The question comes from one of dozens of engineers around a crowded conference table at Google. They have gathered to discuss how to build easy-to-use maps that could turn hundreds of millions of mobile phones into digital Sherpas — guiding travelers to businesses, restaurants and landmarks.
“His plane gets in at 9:30,” the group’s manager responds.
Google is based here in Silicon Valley. But Sanjay G. Mavinkurve, one of the key ...
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The H-1B visa program was supposed to be a temporary program to address a shortage of skilled workers. If there was a shortage, pay offers would go up, but they haven't because there is no shortage. Most H-1B immigrants are given mundane jobs, and kept as indentured servants who are docile for fear of deportation. Administration and oversight are disorganized and spread over multiple agencies that end up enforcing nothing due to bureaucratic haze. Though Microsoft provides support for the local university software engineering school, they hired nobody from that program while they have 10% of their work force supplied via H-1Bs. 20% of the H-1B applications are fraudulent. Visa workers get $12,000 a year less than comparable domestic tech workers.