When I outsourced several departments to HCL. Managed that contract for 5 years. Spent lots of time hobnobbing with the Sr. Leadership of both companies and their H1B transplants. I’ve worked in medical, education, and banking, doing the same thing, and the story has been the same each time. The management and sales staff jet around in their leased Teslas. The staff they bring in were generally good people but almost always lacking the actual skills to replace the workers that we let go. Worked for a US based outsourcer also and pretty much the same. Sales made promises that we knew we could’t deliver. There are probably exceptions out there, but it’s not the norm. HCL was the worst, but Infosys, Accenture… each one I have worked with has been the same. Now, there might be other H1B visas that don’t come in this way… but it was NEVER about not being able to find the right local talent.
As a former h1b worker, everything you said was absolutely wrong.
Like, all of it.
Not one bit of that is true. Where do you get this stuff?
uberdroog@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 week ago
I’ve worked at a smaller company specializing in h1bs. They paid poorly and while the people there were generally nice, most of them were not highly skilled, and they would take a lot of abuse Americans would quit over.
That experience is why I’m so anti H1B.