• outphase84@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    This does not drive wages down. Legally, H1B/Perm applicants need to be paid identical compensation to US-hired resources, and Apple is legally mandated to report the offers they make to anyone granted a visa under the program.

    Tech companies love the H1B process because sponsored employees can’t simply quit, or they lose their visa. In most cases, they also love it because the employees they’re bringing in are not new hires, they’re overseas employees that are a known quantity.

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      1 year ago

      Just because that’s what the law is supposed to do doesn’t mean it is actually effective. They might hire a US Engineer with a Bachelors degree, while hiring an H1B who did a Bachelors in India, worked for IBM India for 3 years, came to the US and did 2 years for their Masters degree . Then they both have the job title “Software Engineer IC2” so technically they can pay them the same. But the cutoff for promotion from IC2 to IC3 is entirely arbitrary so the government can’t regulate it. But they get someone with 5 additional years of career investment at the same price.