>>28114Lets not pretend that every H1B is some best of the best "we can't find someone of this caliber in the US" situation. There is a MASSIVE amount of outright fraud in many overseas tech sector "education" services where someone who just stumbles through a bootcamp is told to say they have 10 years of experience because its very difficult to verify; many in India for instance have "Oh yes, we'll be your reference and say you had a PhD from IIT and 15 years of engineering experience" and, while those applying to the biggest silicon valley companies may get caught, there's both A) a network of existing hires who help others. There was a major scandal a couple years back in Microsoft and another in Oracle I think B) the corporate vested interest not to look too hard because
The real benefit of the H1B is to pay less than a local, legal American AND have someone who is beholden to your company. They can't just work for a few months and then get a better offer elsewhere, their H1B is connected to the particular sponsoring company and if you revoke sponsorship, back they are supposed to go (or remain here illegally, which some do). This is why you see job offerings that have insane qualifications for a low to mid level position, so they can say that there's "nobody qualified here, better go to H1B" but that's not much different from getting illegals to work in agriculture because no American is going to accept $1 per bushel of lettuce picked etc.
So even when they are "educated professionals", they're often being paid a lot less than a local educated professional for the same job with the same ostensible work history. This is not not an issue of "failing to compete / we don't have the workers' any more than big ag can't hire Americans because "nobody wants to work everyone's lazy".