H1-B sponsors hire many, but pay only a little

This article backs up Ragz’s point from our last podcast about H1-B sponsors flooding the lottery trying to get cheap labor for engineering slots.

US-based companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google are paying significantly more than Indian-based companies like Cognizant and Tata for H1-B visa holders. May be just because the US-based companies are subcontracting out a lot of work. So though they look better on paper in terms of pay to H1-B holders, this may not bear in reality.

New data on H-1B visas prove that IT outsourcers hire a lot but pay very little

Waves of tech workers hired. Paychecks that don't match ambition.

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