H-1B visas must end’: Wife of US citizen shares plight of landing IT jobs
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AZ_HighCountry
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I remember as a fresh out having done plenty of "donkey work".
Just because I was textbook smart didn't mean my employer was going to immediately turn me loose on a $100MM project. That wasn't happening.
ihussain
Registered Member
@AZ_HighCountry
Both were Indians, unfortunately. I never use the word “scum,” but their behavior really made me feel that way.
SoulSpokesman
Trusted Member
Watandar
Trusted Member
They were going to reject you so they can file with the Labor department that no qualified Americans or legal immigrants could be found hence they must hire Sanjeev on H1b. Same scam last 30 years.
I have also suffered through these waste of time interviews.
Night Memory
Registered Member
Pakistanis make literally nothing of the H1B visa. It should be shut down.
Night Memory
Registered Member
They should come to Canada, we need doctors here! Not indian ones. Rest are welcome.
AZ_HighCountry
INT'L MOD
Your guess is as good as mine.
Years ago, when I was working at Motorola, it was announced we were opening a design center in India. I don't recall where. That design center was going to focus on the design of chips for the automotive industry.
We had a design group in Tempe. IIRC, it was TSPG, part of SPS. @Nilgiri may recall. Anyway, I knew several of the folks in that group. We all shot together at the local ranges. They went ballistic when that was announced. I asked them point blank how was that a bad thing. At the time, the demand for new vehicles was high and we weren't able to design much less produce the new chips fast enough. If this helps us maintain market share, it's a good thing.
AZ_HighCountry
INT'L MOD
For the time being, at least in the technical fields, the US will remain dependent on qualified H-1Bs regardless of whatever fantasies MTG and others may have,
That is simple fact.
That is simple fact.
ihussain
Registered Member
Trust me, I figured that out in less than two minutes. But I stayed professional and didn’t say anything disrespectful.
One of them tried to cram 50–100 questions into a 30-minute interview without any break.
The other said I needed to know .NET development along with database administration, plus something else I don't even remember.
Technically, I’m a SQL guy and can work in Snowflake as well and applied for SQL Engineer positions.
The question is: how do companies allow people like these to interview candidates? In my entire career, I’ve only interviewed one or two people myself. But anyway…
ihussain
Registered Member
I agree, but they are very tightly knitted community..
AZ_HighCountry
INT'L MOD
Take this table FWIW:
Source: https://www.clrn.org/how-many-engineers-graduate-each-year-in-the-us/
Depending on your field of engineering, you may want to consider changing if possible.
In my case, I studied chemical but ended up practicing civil and construction (don't ask why). At one point, the demand for ChE's was ALWAYS at the top of the list. I think the demand is still there but perhaps not as high as it was .
IEs on the other hand are in very high demand.
Source: https://www.clrn.org/how-many-engineers-graduate-each-year-in-the-us/
Depending on your field of engineering, you may want to consider changing if possible.
In my case, I studied chemical but ended up practicing civil and construction (don't ask why). At one point, the demand for ChE's was ALWAYS at the top of the list. I think the demand is still there but perhaps not as high as it was .
IEs on the other hand are in very high demand.
Watandar
Trusted Member
Hahahha, I remember a phone interview like that from 2001, Indian guy who I could barely understand machine gunned absurdly difficult technical questions to me for 20 minutes and then disappeared. Of course I didn't get the job.
This happens when a mafia has taken over, in this case Indian mafia that has been operating since early 90s using same interview, visa, billing and project mgmt playbook.
Meengla
Elite Member
Right.
From what I have seen of Chiang from the documentaries, he would be yet another Western backed 'democrat' ruling China IF he had prevailed over Mao and I seriously doubt Chiang would be able to govern a large, worn-torn China of 1949 the way the Communists did and turned China around to the new heights we see now. Governing a tiny Taiwan with American backing and protection was another matter and even there, as @Faithfulguy said, there was the dictatorship which lasted so long.
My point: Dictatorships or Authoritarianism is not necessarily a bad thing at least in the initial stages of a country to the point of raising people not only from poverty but also raising education. Pakistan has been caught in the middle of democracy and dictatorship with endless experimentations and neither of which have delivered except the democrats of Pakistan have turned out to be the worse ones.
Meengla
Elite Member
In my experience, Indian IT colleagues have been mostly polite, Indian IT recruiters who call me have been professional; it is when they get into a position 'above' you then watch out. Or when they interview you: Happened to me to once on a panel interview where I had a different way to extract and transform data then his preferred approach and he kept cutting me off and I finally said 'That's how I did it and it worked and everyone was happy and if you don't understand that then I don't know what to say' (paraphrased). Needless to say I didn't get the job. There was also an apparently Chinese/Asian lady in the panel and I could tell she was sympathetic toward me from her questions and during my arguments with the Indian guy.
