Google Again Seeking Visas for Foreign Workers, After Replacing 12,000 Americans Just Weeks Ago

[protectionist]

Some of the biggest companies in tech including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce have hired foreign workers, just weeks after reducing headcount by thousands of US employees, according to a report.

Google, which laid off some 12,000 employees earlier this year, filed applications for low-paid foreign workers to come to the United States and assume highly specialized tech roles within the company, according to investigative journalist Lee Fang.

The Alphabet-owned search engine submitted applications for dozens of foreign workers who were seeking to fill roles including software engineers, analytical consultants, user experience researchers and others, Fang wrote in his Substack newsletter on Tuesday.

The Google-owned self-driving outfit Waymo also received government approval for H-1B visa applications for engineering jobs, according to Fang.

The newly employed workers from overseas will begin working at the company as soon as Aug. 17, Fang reported.

Google, Meta, Amazon hire low-paid foreign workers after US layoffs: report

H-1B visas have been a lightning rod in the immigration debate, with critics saying they are used to undercut US citizens and legal residents.

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[toobfreak]

I keep telling people: JUST STOP USING GOOGLE and ALL GOOGLE PRODUCTS.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Some of the biggest companies in tech including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce have hired foreign workers, just weeks after reducing headcount by thousands of US employees, according to a report.

Google, which laid off some 12,000 employees earlier this year, filed applications for low-paid foreign workers to come to the United States and assume highly specialized tech roles within the company, according to investigative journalist Lee Fang.

The Alphabet-owned search engine submitted applications for dozens of foreign workers who were seeking to fill roles including software engineers, analytical consultants, user experience researchers and others, Fang wrote in his Substack newsletter on Tuesday.

The Google-owned self-driving outfit Waymo also received government approval for H-1B visa applications for engineering jobs, according to Fang.

The newly employed workers from overseas will begin working at the company as soon as Aug. 17, Fang reported.

Google, Meta, Amazon hire low-paid foreign workers after US layoffs: report

H-1B visas have been a lightning rod in the immigration debate, with critics saying they are used to undercut US citizens and legal residents.

nypost.com

What a National Security threat just waiting to happen. Wth such a large and integral company too with access to so much citizens data.

 

[shockedcanadian]

I keep telling people: JUST STOP USING GOOGLE and ALL GOOGLE PRODUCTS.

I dont use google at all,.only if by accident.

 

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[1srelluc]

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[ActionJackson]

Some of the biggest companies in tech including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce have hired foreign workers, just weeks after reducing headcount by thousands of US employees, according to a report.

Google, which laid off some 12,000 employees earlier this year, filed applications for low-paid foreign workers to come to the United States and assume highly specialized tech roles within the company, according to investigative journalist Lee Fang.

The Alphabet-owned search engine submitted applications for dozens of foreign workers who were seeking to fill roles including software engineers, analytical consultants, user experience researchers and others, Fang wrote in his Substack newsletter on Tuesday.

The Google-owned self-driving outfit Waymo also received government approval for H-1B visa applications for engineering jobs, according to Fang.

The newly employed workers from overseas will begin working at the company as soon as Aug. 17, Fang reported.

Google, Meta, Amazon hire low-paid foreign workers after US layoffs: report

H-1B visas have been a lightning rod in the immigration debate, with critics saying they are used to undercut US citizens and legal residents.

nypost.com

Dog-eat-dog. The top Libs stickin' it to the bottom feeder Libs. No more free lunch suckas! Time to get real jobs.

 

[protectionist]

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[Dragonlady]

The tech companies aren’t laying off software engineers. They’re laying off all of the extra people that they took on during the pandemic because everybody was at home and working from home and on their computers during the pandemic.

They’ve been bringing in software engineers and putting them in offices in Canada to work with the US company because they couldn’t bring them into the US.

Last, but not least, even with all these layoffs in the tech sector, the entire economy is in such a huge boom, but the unemployed quickly found work. Unemployment insurance applications kept dropping, and the unemployment rate continued to decline.

There’s been a massive shortage of computer, engineers and software engineers for a generation. That’s why so many people were importing workers from Eastern European, and Asia.

Now that the borders are open again, these people can bring visa workers into the US for the first time since Trump banned all immigration.

 

[ActionJackson]

The tech companies aren’t laying off software engineers. They’re laying off all of the extra people that they took on during the pandemic because everybody was at home and working from home and on their computers during the pandemic.

They’ve been bringing in software engineers and putting them in offices in Canada to work with the US company because they couldn’t bring them into the US.

Last, but not least, even with all these layoffs in the tech sector, the entire economy is in such a huge boom, but the unemployed quickly found work. Unemployment insurance applications kept dropping, and the unemployment rate continued to decline.

There’s been a massive shortage of computer, engineers and software engineers for a generation. That’s why so many people were importing workers from Eastern European, and Asia.

Now that the borders are open again, these people can bring visa workers into the US for the first time since Trump banned all immigration.

Uh huh. Okee dokee then. Buh Bye.

And for some, odd reason, they're just going to replace them with foreigners.

You're right about one thing: the borders are WIDE OPEN!!

 

[Dragonlady]

Uh huh. Okee dokee then. Buh Bye.

And for some, odd reason, they're just going to replace them with foreigners.

You're right about one thing: the borders are WIDE OPEN!!

Google are not replacing anyone with foreigners. The people they laid off W coders and service reps, not software engineers.

They’ve been hiring foreign software engineers and sending them to Canada but now they can bring them to the states. There are nowhere near enough, American software engineers to fill all of the jobs.

That’s why none of the 12,000 people are still out of work because there’s so many jobs in tech right now.

The borders are not, and never were wide open. You’ve always had to have a visa to get in.

 

[g5000]

Some of the biggest companies in tech including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce have hired foreign workers, just weeks after reducing headcount by thousands of US employees, according to a report.

Google, which laid off some 12,000 employees earlier this year, filed applications for low-paid foreign workers to come to the United States and assume highly specialized tech roles within the company, according to investigative journalist Lee Fang.

The Alphabet-owned search engine submitted applications for dozens of foreign workers who were seeking to fill roles including software engineers, analytical consultants, user experience researchers and others, Fang wrote in his Substack newsletter on Tuesday.

The Google-owned self-driving outfit Waymo also received government approval for H-1B visa applications for engineering jobs, according to Fang.

The newly employed workers from overseas will begin working at the company as soon as Aug. 17, Fang reported.

Google, Meta, Amazon hire low-paid foreign workers after US layoffs: report

H-1B visas have been a lightning rod in the immigration debate, with critics saying they are used to undercut US citizens and legal residents.

nypost.com

I would like to see evidence the foreign software engineers are low-paid.

When my company opened up a job for a technical position, there was NO ONE beating down our door. Then a woman from India applied, and her qualifications were perfect. Better than perfect.

So the day after her interview, we made an offer. She replied a day after that she had been offered a job which paid ten dollars an hour more than we were offering, and she took it.

For the past decade or so, it has been incredibly difficult to find people who have the technical qualifications to work at my company.

During the pandemic, we had a huge brain drain as employees were lured away by higher salaries at other companies.

The MAGA rag New York Post is full of shit.

 

[ActionJackson]

The borders are not, and never were wide open. You’ve always had to have a visa to get in.

Really? You have to have a visa to get in? Tell that to the millions of illegal invaders pouring over Biden's porous border.

 

[protectionist]

The tech companies aren’t laying off software engineers. They’re laying off all of the extra people that they took on during the pandemic because everybody was at home and working from home and on their computers during the pandemic.

They’ve been bringing in software engineers and putting them in offices in Canada to work with the US company because they couldn’t bring them into the US.

Last, but not least, even with all these layoffs in the tech sector, the entire economy is in such a huge boom, but the unemployed quickly found work. Unemployment insurance applications kept dropping, and the unemployment rate continued to decline.

There’s been a massive shortage of computer, engineers and software engineers for a generation. That’s why so many people were importing workers from Eastern European, and Asia.

Now that the borders are open again, these people can bring visa workers into the US for the first time since Trump banned all immigration.

The idea that "There’s been a massive shortage of computer, engineers and software engineers" is a MYTH perpetrated by the high-tech industry, and it the same line these companies have been dishing out for years.
But their myth is exposed by the fact that when labor is in short supply, wages go up. But they have not gone up. With every hire of foreign workers, wages have gone down.

 

[protectionist]

The borders are not, and never were wide open. You’ve always had to have a visa to get in.

On Newsmax today, I just saw and heard a woman from Venezuela with 2 boys, being questioned by a reporter, on the American side of the border. When asked what the authorities required them to do, I heard the woman reply >> "No nos hicieron ninguna pregunta. Simplemente nos dejaron pasar." This means >> "They didn't ask us any question. They just let us through."

They were able to go anywhere they wanted at that point. To a shelter. To a hotel. To a bus. So much for asylum or any talking points coming from Mayorkas or anyone on the Biden administration. Sometimes going to the source is the best way to ascertain.

 

[protectionist]

I would like to see evidence the foreign software engineers are low-paid.

When my company opened up a job for a technical position, there was NO ONE beating down our door. Then a woman from India applied, and her qualifications were perfect. Better than perfect.

So the day after her interview, we made an offer. She replied a day after that she had been offered a job which paid ten dollars an hour more than we were offering, and she took it.

For the past decade or so, it has been incredibly difficult to find people who have the technical qualifications to work at my company.

During the pandemic, we had a huge brain drain as employees were lured away by higher salaries at other companies.

The MAGA rag New York Post is full of shit.

You got it. (and you had it in the OP)

Understanding the Economic Impact of the H-1B Program on the U.S.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

www.nber.org

It's not hard to find workers with "the technical qualifications" when they have been coming into work at your own company for 20 years. Duh! We;re talking about people already employed and being let go. This has been going on for years.

 

[g5000]

You got it. (and you had it in the OP)

Understanding the Economic Impact of the H-1B Program on the U.S.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

www.nber.org

It's not hard to find workers with "the technical qualifications" when they have been coming into work at your own company for 20 years. Duh! We;re talking about people already employed and being let go. This has been going on for years.

The data in your link is over 20 years old.

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Software-Engineer-Salary

As of May 12, 2023, the average annual pay for a Software Engineer in the United States is $139,952 a year.


Here is what H1B software engineers earn at the companies mentioned in your OP: Herman Legal Group's Guide to H1B for Software Engineers

	Average Median Salary for H1B Software Engineers
Google	$141,000
Microsoft	$139,000
Apple	$120,307
Facebook	$170,000
Lyft	$177,225
IBM	$114,659
Airbnb	$182,611
Uber Technologies	$141,346
Linkedin	$139,748
Mitchell/Martin	$131,935

 

[EvilCat Breath]

On Newsmax today, I just saw and heard a woman from Venezuela with 2 boys, being questioned by a reporter, on the American side of the border. When asked what the authorities required them to do, I heard the woman reply >> "No nos hicieron ninguna pregunta. Simplemente nos dejaron pasar." This means >> "They didn't ask us any question. They just let us through."

They were able to go anywhere they wanted at that point. To a shelter. To a hotel. To a bus. So much for asylum or any talking points coming from Mayorkas or anyone on the Biden administration. Sometimes going to the source is the best way to ascertain.

They come believing there is work. There is no work. Whatever work there was, got gutted long ago. El Paso, Brownsville, New York, Chicago., San Diego, Los Angeles, no work, no place to live. Sharing the streets with the native homeless.

These invaders are going to get pissed.

 

[Dragonlady]

On Newsmax today, I just saw and heard a woman from Venezuela with 2 boys, being questioned by a reporter, on the American side of the border. When asked what the authorities required them to do, I heard the woman reply >> "No nos hicieron ninguna pregunta. Simplemente nos dejaron pasar." This means >> "They didn't ask us any question. They just let us through."

They were able to go anywhere they wanted at that point. To a shelter. To a hotel. To a bus. So much for asylum or any talking points coming from Mayorkas or anyone on the Biden administration. Sometimes going to the source is the best way to ascertain.

You saw a report on Newsmax. Newsmax is a Questionsble Sourced. Extreme bias, low credibility.

Newsmax - Bias and Credibility

QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Newsmax is just another billionaire owned lying right wing source. Less credible than Fox News.

 

[protectionist]

The data in your link is over 20 years old.

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Software-Engineer-Salary

As of May 12, 2023, the average annual pay for a Software Engineer in the United States is $139,952 a year.


Here is what H1B software engineers earn at the companies mentioned in your OP: Herman Legal Group's Guide to H1B for Software Engineers

	Average Median Salary for H1B Software Engineers
Google	$141,000
Microsoft	$139,000
Apple	$120,307
Facebook	$170,000
Lyft	$177,225
IBM	$114,659
Airbnb	$182,611
Uber Technologies	$141,346
Linkedin	$139,748
Mitchell/Martin	$131,935

Companies routinely underpay foreigners who are looked upon as source of cheap labor. 50 years ago, 20 years ago, now. They dump Americans who have been loyally working for them for 20+ years. 50 years go, 20 years go, now.