BTW… The times when QC wanted to save money and not pay prevailing wages usually resulted in no hiring at all, H1B or not.
It usually resulted in them contracting the work out to someone like WiPro where WiPro would do most of the work out of India and fly people.in and out of the US. That happened a lot in QCT and their connectivity subsidiary.
That’s a completely different problem, unrelated to QCs H1B hiring practice domestically.
That’s why if you go through resumes of people with connectivity experience, many of them say “worked on QC Atheros connectivity implementation” but their employer is WiPro.