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New comment by calculatte in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

calculatte — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:01:11 +0000

What magical skills do the "damn foreigners" have that none of those 30,000 laid off employees don't have? What was the intent of the H1B? To find skills that don't exist in this country. What is H1B actually used for? Labor arbitrage, nepotism, kickbacks. There's really no excuse for defending it anymore.

New comment by calculatte in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

calculatte — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:40:30 +0000

Or the bootlicker olympics for those who want everyone else to ignore the constant lies because they think bigger, more powerful government is utopian.

New comment by calculatte in "Don't become an engineering manager"

calculatte — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:32:07 +0000

An unverifiable line item on a resume gives you real insight on an individual's experience and skills? I think your system is flawed.

New comment by calculatte in "Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress"

calculatte — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:28:39 +0000

Well you are right about one thing. Government is intent on breaking the country. But rampant immigration immigration fraud and abuse has been around for decades.

New comment by calculatte in "Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress"

calculatte — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:23:30 +0000

Go ahead then. Explain how the US government measures the skills of work visa applicants. Because they just exposed millions are buying fake diplomas in India and getting visas. On the contrary, you sound like an H1B worker defending your position to parasitically drain US resources.

New comment by calculatte in "Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress"

calculatte — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:13:27 +0000

I think anyone working with the global talent can tell you there are absolutely no controls around measuring their quality. The skilled talent simply isn't skilled at all. They are willing to engage in kickback schemes. Even the O1 "genius" visa is being given to onlyfans models. Immigration is completely broken and it's by design.

New comment by calculatte in "Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress"

calculatte — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:09:57 +0000

Yeah, it should also be combined with the elimination of OPT, H4 EAD, and H1 visas that are harming the STEM industries in the same way to the tune of 6 million jobs. New grads can't compete with the tax benefits provided by hiring OPT workers.

New comment by calculatte in "Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress"

calculatte — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:35:40 +0000

Rampant abuse, fraud, nepotistic hiring combined with record high tech unemployment to start.

New comment by calculatte in "Intel CEO Letter to Employees"

calculatte — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:39:54 +0000

These companies include the most valuable companies making record profits. They aren't struggling to survive. They are bowing to institutional investor demands to eek out another penny because the alternative is they get replaced by the board.

New comment by calculatte in "Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building"

calculatte — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:58:06 +0000

Name a single major accomplishment of the USIP. That's the grift.

New comment by calculatte in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

calculatte — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:16:15 +0000

Exactly.

So what is the tiktok ban really about? If it's about the lack of narrative control, we should see the same ban being applied to RedNote.

New comment by calculatte in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

calculatte — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:11:32 +0000

As a Chinese, you know what you can't talk about. As an American we are "surprised" when our "free speech" results in overt government-sponsored censorship.

You are very wrong.

New comment by calculatte in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

calculatte — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:48:53 +0000

I'm willing to bet Americans are the most propagandized people on Earth. And it's done by our government with the "public/private partnership" aka "unconstitutional workarounds" of all legacy media and social media outlets. Facebook has admitted as much, and the Twitter files proves it.

China controlling the flow of information is the same. The only difference is China is upfront about what information they are feeding everyone.

New comment by calculatte in "Updates to H-1B"

calculatte — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:23:50 +0000

Then call me Mr Outlier.

Because large tech companies with a large cohort of H1B + tendency to frequently reorg + career level with impact with large reach means I have indeed worked with hundreds.

Sorry bro, you don't get to deny my actual experience.

New comment by calculatte in "Updates to H-1B"

calculatte — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:36:07 +0000

Given that Meta pays so well, why are they so dependent on H1B?

Or google? In 2023 they had a net elimination of 6576 US jobs, but added 5479 H1B.

This isn't a simple market issue, these companies are abusing worker visas to replace Americans from their own companies.

New comment by calculatte in "Updates to H-1B"

calculatte — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:45:30 +0000

The H1B fraud from places like Infosys is alive, well, and bigger than ever.

Alive and well. https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/h1b_visa_fraud/

Companies caught cheating the lottery https://archive.ph/Ey3e8

Outsourcers rampant abuse https://www.infoworld.com/article/2241196/proof-that-h-1b-vi...

SV companies discriminating against Americans https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/10/07/h-1b-visa-company-sup...

New comment by calculatte in "Updates to H-1B"

calculatte — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:35:45 +0000

You've clearly never worked in a large tech company.

New comment by calculatte in "Updates to H-1B"

calculatte — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:08:22 +0000

You are forgetting the dimension called "time" Mr. Angry But Dense.

New comment by calculatte in "Updates to H-1B"

calculatte — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:34:34 +0000

H1B doesn't test for skill. It is a lottery. And judging from the skill of hundreds of H1Bs I've worked with, it is a failure of a system.

New comment by calculatte in "Updates to H-1B"

calculatte — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:33:07 +0000

You didn't name your employer for someone who might be interested. Perhaps visibility is one reason you can't find anyone?

I applied to a similar position locally this year. I far exceed their requirements and experience and I got rejected at the application stage. And the same goes for nearly all of other places I applied to. Hiring has most definitely changed over the years. They are not just looking for "qualified applicants". There is something else going on.