Why do citizens not get hired first?
freedomman @ Amazon
I see many local graduates from Washington colleges like EWU, WWU, CWU, and WSU but they are not working for the local companies (Microsoft and Amazon).
Some abuse I’ve noticed of the H1B system.
1. Teams lean heavily towards the ethnicity of the line managers. So much so that two countries that make up maybe 5% of the US population are more than 80% of engineering. American Hispanic population is vastly underrepresented but many of them pursue STEM degrees.
2. H1B is for employees with specialized knowledgeable but I have not seen a team member or anyone in my org with specialized domain knowledge.
3 H1B are more likely to stay in a company as conditions decline (see Twitter and even Amazon), which is a negative to local workers.
4. Companies like Amazon and Microsoft support vast immigration but refuse to spend money on more housing to make up for the numbers they hire into the local area.
A US Citizen with a CS degree (or related) should always be prioritized over someone from another country. No leetcode bullshit or other to filter employees. US schools do not focus on rote memorization such as leetcode which has done us well (see pre 90s Microsoft/Apple/IBM, pre 2010s Google, today SpaceX and OpenAI. Hiring Americans is a win for innovation.
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