If you want to see how owned the US is and how fucked up the tech job market is:
"In 2023, American colleges graduated 134,153 citizens or green card holders with bachelor's or master's degrees in computer science," Lynn wrote.
"That same year, our federal government handed out work permits to at least 110,098 foreign workers in computer occupations through just three major guest worker programs. That's equal to 82 percent of our graduating class who are guaranteed jobs even before any Americans walk across the stage for their diploma."
The amount of college graduates in tech related fields each year and H1B holders is nearly equal!!
If you simply stopped the H-1B program today, you could make it very likely for all these graduates to actually get a job in tech instead of working as a barista.
The H-1B program was sold as a way to address "worker shortages", but the actual truth is America has a surplus of tech workers, especially right now.
H-1B programs exist so Wipro, Cognizant, can make buckets of money telling the C-Suite "We can help you save 80% on your tech labor" and then they offshore anything that's not nailed down.
Another tidbit from the article is they don't target outsourcing 100% of an IT department. They aim for a 70% offshore / 30% on-shore and then try to shove as many H-1Bs as they can into those onshore jobs.
Try to find a company that has outsourced to India in a big way and then productivity went up. Typically what happens is when they outsource, their labor costs go down and they loudly proclaim how smart they are and how much money is saved. However, those $5 workers overseas are cheap for a reason: they are fucking terrible. After a few years when the rot gets so bad barely anything gets done, the company either goes out of business, or cans all the Indians and hires domestically again. It's basically a scam that's nearly 30 years old at this point. It's sad that Cognizant and co. make all their $$$ on the backs of American workers.
Our Congresscritters are useless in opposing H-1B. Even Trump likes it, because it saves him (and his companies) a lot of money. Sadly, a lot of American tech workers still love Trump, even as he helps to cut more domestic jobs and ensure that the stream of money to India remains intact.
If anyone out there has some kind of victory story where they outsourced to India and everything was great for years and years, let me know, because all I have seen is absolute disasters and I've probably made more money cleaning up after India's messes than any kind of trouble they could have saved.
Disgusting, but that's America in 2025.
