[quote=lifeisgood]Bottom line, if what you’re saying is true, then the qualified U.S. workers have nothing to worry about. They don’t have to worry about taking less pay or losing out on a job or being let go from a job because they’ve been replaced. You know people are generally self sustaining. I know that laws and rules exist to be broken. People are interviewed for positions just so companies can meet the law requirements with no intention of hiring these people. I just hope this is the exception and not the rule. Thanks for your insight. I really mean that. You all have brought up good points and have really made me think.[/quote]
No, what I am saying is the US workers need to worry more about companies moving the entire division to China or India, no one having a job in the U.S. (either H1B or PR) because the company is no longer growing anymore and doesn’t need to expand in the U.S. Because that is the main problem most of these big companies are facing these days.
They have to worry about taking a lesser job/role because their engineering counterpart in Bangalore or Beijing claim that they can do the same quality work for $30,000 USD while an engineer here making $150,000 USD would normally do (regardless if they have a greencard or not)… And that whether that is really true or not, bean counters think it is and actually try it.
I have never had any issues hiring US citizens over H1-Bs. But I have had many issues just getting ANY headcount in the U.S., because when it came to the bean counting, people felt it would be money better spent by hiring “6-8” engineers overseas versus hiring 1 person in the U.S. (H1-B or not)
