H-1B Visa Debate: Are Foreign Workers Taking American Tech Jobs?
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Locally, Qualcomm is the biggest tech company in San Diego.
So big that Qualcomm is used as an economic indicator for SD County.
A friend works at Qualcomm was a manager.
I asked him why Qualcomm hires lots of H-1B engineers.
He said because everyone does this.
He then explained the process.
To hire an H-1B, the companies would have to prove that a U.S. worker can't doesn't have the skills needed to perform that job.
To prove that, the hiring company has to advertise the position for X numbers of days/weeks in the U.S.
He tells me that Qualcomm advertises the position in some non-tech newspaper in an obscure location like Big Bear Gazette (I don;t know if there is a Big Bear Gazette, but that's the example he used).
And after X numbers of days/weeks, the hiring company now satisfies the advertising requirement, and proceeds in hiring the H-1B candidate.
Why would they do it this way? Because, well all the other companies are doing it the same way.
