CrazyUrbanist
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- Mar 27, 2023
Just looking at the bits I'm more familiar with, these visa figures are on the order of fully ~half of these corporations entire headcount. At some point you wonder how they continue to qualify as American businesses.Here's Amazon's main H-1B LLC:
Google, not surprisingly, had 45k applications for software developers alone.
You can see where I’m going with this. A casual perusal of the data shows that this isn’t a program for the top 0.1% of talent, as it’s been described. This is simply a way to recruit hundreds of thousands of relatively lower-wage IT and financial services professionals.
That plus layoffs, and it's no wonder all the juniors fresh out of college are melting down that they can't find any work in their industry.