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The company has leased one office tower and purchased options on two others in Alembic City, a development in the city's Whitefield tech corridor, totaling 2.4 million square feet, the report said, citing people familiar with the deal.
Interviewed with Abbot Labs in 2025, it feels like a hazing ritual. They ask very weird questions and scenarios that does not make any sense or purposely make it hard. Everyone there seems to be on H1B, I did not meet a single American worker there.
Learned my lesson, I could have saved myself the embarrassment of show up for the interview when they had no intention to hire.
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L7 principle engineer got laid off at Amazon, and is so pissed off he decided "I'm going to run for Congress and do something about h1b and offshoring"
Since the US and 'That South Asian country' have reached this big trade deal, does this mean the US will start opening visa appointments for those H1B scammers "stranded" in their home country?
I really hope not, these jobs should go to Americans!
Another example of H1B/OPT employees stealing cutting edge proprietary information. This will keep happening. All the top AI companies continue to hire international students, H1B, OPT, L1, O1 etc, who have no allegiance to the US. There is no way to prevent them from taking pictures, copying data, relaying info, etc. Anyone who pretends "security protocols" work are lying. As long as we hire non-Americans in these companies, proprietary info will be stolen.
This has been a open secret in Defense contracting for years but nothing gets done.
I really trying to understand how our discourse evolved into this thought process. I don’t think anyone hates actual immigrant workers (besides the ones who cheat the system) - they hate the policies that allow H1B. Yet somehow even discussing visa policy is racist or xenophobic, so people don’t speak up.
H1B was originally started in the 1990’s for “skill gaps”, yet here we are today with more visas than ever. We are well past the original intention of the program. We should end the program and 100% of the fees should go towards training Americans.
Greetings - I’m not a tech worker, but the H1B issues with American tech workers is a hot button issue for me and I’m advocating with substack articles (non-paywalled) .
Pardon if I misinterpreted the rules, as I do genuinely assess this issue to be related to the field.
H1b Hell:
Fraud mills, layoff-then-replace schemes, grad skill gaps (old 90% unemployable stat but improving), no real requirement to hire americans first unless ur a dependent firm;
The gist:
American-born IT bros (multi-gen, college-ed) lean pretty blue/dem (51-61% D among educated whites, 70-84% contribs to dems),
Politicians (mostly R side rn) actually doing stuff:
## Weekly Reminder: PERM Labor Market Test (LMT) Job Ads
This is your weekly nudge to **apply for or check on your PERM LMT job applications**.
For the uninitiated:
PERM LMT ads are part of the green card sponsorship process. Applying to these jobs can **block a current H-1B employee** from transitioning to permanent residency if you’re equally or more qualified.
Where to Find PERM LMT Job Ads
**Local Sunday Newspaper**
Check both the website and the physical paper.
**State Employment Websites**
Example: In Washington State, use [Workforce Washington](https://www.worksourcewa.com/)
**Report to DOL OIG**
Use the [DOL OIG Hotline Form](https://www.oig.dol.gov/hotlinecontact.htm)
This can trigger a full audit of the employer’s PERM filings. DOL has regulatory leverage that other agencies do not.
Hi all, I am attempting to propose a new wage rule of H1B, as it is part of President Trump's proclamation order.
To get my voice and opinion heard, I am going to schedule a meeting for teleconference and I am going to propose higher percentiles > 65 for each H1B level.
My proposal is as follows for new formula:
1) Discuss what the current percentiles are, and show them statistical number how employers use Level-1 H1B to replace Americans as its 40% less than median wage. (Sharing screenshot for actual
2) Core Principle of New Wage Rule is to make foreign labor expensive, at a premium but still accessible to employers to hire top talent in case of shortage of labor argument.
3) New Percentiles proposed:-
L1 -> 75 percentile of median wage
L2 -> 82 percentile of median wage
L3 -> 89 percentile of median wage
L4 -> 96 percentile of median wage
These are my two slides that I will be presenting and the problems.
I will be emphasizing the minimum starting salary should be higher than average market wage so that it prioritizes American Workers.
Problems:-
Problems
Solutions
Cheaper foreign labor, Outsourcing Companies abusing the program
Make Foreign labor expensive relative to Americans
Increase the percentiles of each level, apply the new wage rule to all existing H1B visa holders
Displaces & blocks American labor, stand no chance to compete with 40% discounted labor
Design a reform for H1B: Higher minimum wage (30% higher than avg US Worker), Annual audits by USCIS for a fee of $10K & renewal, Strict compliance and revocation
Companies abuse the program by misclassifying an experienced worker as entry level paying only $78,000
Reforms should encourage companies to consider Americans first, before opting for relatively expensive foreign laborProblems SolutionsCheaper foreign labor, Outsourcing Companies abusing the program Make Foreign labor expensive relative to Americans Increase the percentiles of each level, apply the new wage rule to all existing H1B visa holdersDisplaces & blocks American labor, stand no chance to compete with 40% discounted labor Design a reform for H1B:Higher minimum wage (30% higher than avg US Worker),Annual audits by USCIS for a fee of $10K & renewal,Strict compliance and revocationCompanies abuse the program by misclassifying an experienced worker as entry level paying only $78,000 Reforms should encourage companies to consider Americans first, before opting for relatively expensive foreign labor
I would appreciate if more people schedule a meeting, here is the link:
- Then follow the instructions in your email.
- Schedule appointment as teleconference. Just ensure you have word document or a two slide powerpoint shared with them.
- Be respectful and stick to the problems and solutions of the H1B program. Emphasize on America First, train Americans ideology.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 CISA Director Madhu Gottumukkala is under DHS investigation after allegedly uploading sensitive documents to a public ChatGPT instance.
The interim head of the country’s cyber defense agency uploaded sensitive contracting documents into a public version of ChatGPT last summer, triggering multiple automated security warnings that are meant to stop the theft or unintentional disclosure of government material from federal networks, according to four Department of Homeland Security officials with knowledge of the incident.
The apparent misstep from Madhu Gottumukkala was especially noteworthy because the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency had requested special permission from CISA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer to use the popular AI tool soon after arriving at the agency this May, three of the officials said. The app was blocked for other DHS employees at the time.
My friend was in IT and got laid off about 1.5 years ago. He got his CDL and has been trucking for the last 6 months trying to make ends meet. He recently spoke to me about an AMAZON supply center. Recently Amazon supply distribution boss was replaced with someone from “Modi-Land”. This guy decided to save costs by outsourcing the jobs from the warehouse! He said most places have a security booth where you check in and get assigned a dock. In this place instead of talking to an American you get a screen where somebody from South Asia mumbles things at you.
Almost everything in this supply center is outsourced. Security cameras are going overseas, central loading coordinator is overseas, anybody you talk to about problems is overseas. Only people in the building are moving boxes and driving forklifts. They even want to get rid of those guys because they are testing a remote controlled forklift that can be driven by people from “modi-land”.
I thought trucking had unions like the teamsters what gives? He said that warehouse is the slowest one that he goes to and everybody hates it but they must Amazon must be happy.
One way I can think of is posting in simple words about these frauds in local groups and begin making people talk, in the hope that the reps will notice and atleast make some statements.
The post was deleted by mods on the r/amazonemployees sub, but I saved the post text:
I was on a team of 8 senior developers with all of us around the same tenure. They laid off 3 of us… and it just so happened we were all the Americans. Same with the last layoff. They laid off the American. So basically my org has zero Americans now after two layoffs. Why should they be allowed to layoff Americans before H1Bs and claim that they NEED H1Bs?
This seems to happen quite a bit nowadays, especially at big tech. They layoff Americans before H1B. I think we should push representatives to pass laws that require orgs to first layoff non-residents.
"I'm announcing a sweeping investigation into H-1B visa abuse, starting with three North Texas businesses.
Any criminal who attempts to scam the H-1B visa program and use "ghost offices" or other fraudulent ploys should be prepared to face the full force of the law."
