had become a blessing for the U.S. operations of global Indian companies, allowing them to send engineers from India, rather than hiring locally.
...rather than hiring locally...
That's why nobody who works for a living cares.
In related news, Microsoft is cutting contractor rates by 10% starting next month. Seems theres an abundance of
talent at least in the Seattle area. Middleaged SWE’s needn’t even bother here unless they are interested in a
20% or more wage cut.
I’m clearing out, leaving the house empty and the key in the door and heading to MidAmerica. My thanks for studying hard in school and defending the country in my youth is having my hourly rate be lower with each contract and no employer willing to offer FT with benefits. Oh well, better to just die quietly than to opine whether it might be fitting for there to be at least some health coverage for someone in the latter part of their career and with a heath condition...
If they cut all the H1Bs and cut off the means for legal immigrants to enter the US, then the companies can just hire in legal entities outside the US. This will help them, but the US will lose intelligent migrants. Of couse, the democrats wiould love unskilled illegals...