https://redbus2us.com/h1b-visa-cap-reach-dates-history-graphs-uscis-data/
FY 2012: 85,000
FY 2019: 190,000
FY 2023: 483,927
lmao
Total H1b Applications Filed By Year
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There's too much talent in India and not enough in the U.S.
The result you will continue to see are 400k+ salaries in SF for the lucky few.
More jobs will be added in India.
I expect SWE salaries in India will continue to go up given a convergence in global tech salaries.
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Keep dreaming curries. R will win elections by a sweep and the cap will be cut even further. Once further people realize the tech industry is a complete scam then these companies will be heavily regulated and profits culled.
Rs gonna get killed in 24. It's all about women and Dobbs. I say this as someone who voted T in 16 and 20 and donated to his campaign.
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There is no h1b cap for non-profits like universities.
Exactly. I wonder if there are stats out there on how many folks annually are in these roles? I bet it easily exceeds the capped number.
Absolutely. Universities even hire SWEs on h1b then farms 49% of their time to companies to get around the cap.
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The cap is still 60k + 20k right? Who even sponsors these applications with such low odds
Indian tech HR companies like Infosys (and yes I just called infosys a HR company). They basically get a bunch of IT guys in India on their payroll and then file out everything to ship them to the US. Some of them even send out more than 100k applications. The ones that make it then spread through US companies and do business back with Infosys or whoever did all the work to get them to the US.
The reason why most H1B are indian is because these companies send out close to 80-90% of all H1B applications. I have actually shifted through some CVs that went through this process and they are hilariously fake. I'd bet my entire lifetime earning that 97% of them downloaded several stuff off of github and just changed a few names and called it their work. In fact I'd bet 50% of my entire lifetime earnings that their indian HR companies did that for them because there were obvious repeats in their "proprietary pet projects"
Its less about sending quality workers to the US and more about overloading the system so that 450k indian applications out of 480k applications have a higher chance of getting the few spots that exist. If you want to stop India from abusing this system you need to put a cap per country.
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BTW, for the indian bros on EJMR, you would be insulted if you saw some of these applicants and saw that they are getting chances ahead of people you know from back home in India. It literally is a shotgun approach where they don't even put in the effort of picking the good ones.