FAANGs are complicit in a few ways, one being they grab what H1B visas they can, another being they hire contractors who are here under H1B from firms that grab even more of the pool of visas.
Contracting companies grab a disproportionate number of H1B visas for their relative size, and then these employees go work for big tech companies.
Out of the top 10 companies, you've got the usual suspects like Google, Microsoft, Amazon. But the total number from consulting companies makes up the lion's share by count, with cognizant being by far the biggest. You can look at the average salaries and tell who's being used for cheap grunt work at scale (spoiler: it's the big consulting companies!).
So what does big tech do with all those contractors? They use them to get work done at bargain basement prices. When they don't need the engineers anymore, they just don't renew the contract. Engineers as a commodity - sort of like the scalability and fungibility of cloud resources brought to staffing.
> Out of the top 10 companies, you've got the usual suspects like Google, Microsoft, Amazon.
One of the reason for that is, from experience, they don't really ask for immigration status (at least not long ago they didn't seem to care). If candidate received the greenlight from engineering, it was the legal department's job to get them a visa. What's a 10k of legal fees when the employee's signing bonus is 3x that?
Contracting companies grab a disproportionate number of H1B visas for their relative size, and then these employees go work for big tech companies.
https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2021-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.asp...
Out of the top 10 companies, you've got the usual suspects like Google, Microsoft, Amazon. But the total number from consulting companies makes up the lion's share by count, with cognizant being by far the biggest. You can look at the average salaries and tell who's being used for cheap grunt work at scale (spoiler: it's the big consulting companies!).
So what does big tech do with all those contractors? They use them to get work done at bargain basement prices. When they don't need the engineers anymore, they just don't renew the contract. Engineers as a commodity - sort of like the scalability and fungibility of cloud resources brought to staffing.