See something say something. Apply all the software engineer job openings. If they reject you and hire only Indians, report then to ICE and EEOC.
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Wouldn't that come out in the interview process though? HR doesn't hire anyone without the hiring manager's approval
I would say the concern is less that the h1b candidate isn't qualified and more that there are many domestic employees who are qualified and not given the chance. we should only be looking for h1b if there isn't any local talent which just doesn't seem to be the case in most instances.
I’ve reviewed countless resumes from Indians. The amount that noticeably lie on their outstrips Americans who do. They’ll claim they used specific tools when the resume shows they don’t even accurately know what that tool does.
HR isn’t catching them because they can’t possibly know all the skills and tools needed throughout the bank.
"h1b1 fraud" is beating around the bush. Get on x if you truly want to know what is occurring. Replacement.
Microsoft layoffs and hires H1B:
Microsoft's H-1B Visa Applications Questioned Amid Mass Layoffs
https://www.newsweek.com/microsoft-layoffs-h1b-visa-applications-2094370
@a1 Stupidity. There’s various visas outside of the H1B. Not everyone that joins the bank from Wells Fargo is from India either. I’m one of those. As someone going through the process to obtain a legitimate Green Card at Wells Fargo. There’s nothing illegitimate about the process. The external immigration firm that Wells Fargo hires requires endless amounts of paperwork to verify that your credentials are legitimate. They’re not outsourcing this work to a shady company based in India. There’s also a common misconception that people that are on employment visas are paid less than the average US worker. This is incorrect. This is illegal and there’s a process in place under the LCA to ensure that employees salary’s are in alignment.
“ Cognizant ousted many non-Indian workers by first taking them off projects and “benching” them without work, then keeping them benched until firing them in accordance with a company policy.”
This is happening in WF. If you feel like something similar is happening in your organization — where managers consistently assign key projects and growth opportunities to their fellow H-1B hires, while American employees are sidelined, deprived of important work, and effectively benched — how do you prepare for future action?
What documentation should you collect? What kind of patterns or communication could be legally significant?
It’s time we start talking about how “strategic resourcing” can quietly become discrimination in disguise.
Watch the video below from the lawyer that won a jury trial against Cognizant for their discrimination against Americans. You might want to give a call to this lawyer, in the interview he says he'd like to here from anyone seeing the same thing at their work.
https://youtu.be/unlpv960ruc?si=cNFKIspAVx8_x2-T
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/indian-corporation-pays-record-34-million-fine-settle-allegations-systemic-visa-fraud
The public can call Immigrant and Employee Rights (IER) Section free hotline at 1-800-255-7688 for workers or at 1-800-255-8155 for employers (1-800-237-2515, TTY for hearing impaired) for informal assistance; sign up for a live webinar or watch an on-demand presentation; email IER@usdoj.gov; or visit www.justice.gov/ier.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-fighting-discrimination-against-us-workers
https://www.hrdive.com/news/doj-h-1b-holders-citizenship-discrimination/750663/
@a4 Soon there will be class action lawsuits against Wellsfargo for unlawful layoffs.
H-1B visa: Company supplying thousands of tech workers to Silicon Valley discriminated against non-Indians, jury finds
Ethan Baron
UPDATED: October 9, 2024 at 10:13 AM PDT
Categories:Business, News, Technology
A company that supplies thousands of workers for Silicon Valley’s technology industry and other Bay Area employers intentionally discriminated against non-Indian workers, a jury has found.
The jury verdict against Cognizant, founded in Chennai and now headquartered in New Jersey, came Friday in a class-action lawsuit that revolved around claims the firm abused the H-1B visa process. The visa is intended for workers with specialized skills, and Silicon Valley tech firms rely on it heavily to secure top talent and also to obtain workers for lower-level jobs via Cognizant and other staffing firms.
Three U.S.-born workers described in the lawsuit as “Caucasian” — Vartan Piroumian of California, Christy Palmer of Arizona and Edward Cox of Texas — sued Cognizant in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles in 2017. Another plaintiff described as Caucasian, Jean-Claude Franchitti, a green card holder from France, joined as a plaintiff later.
The lawsuit claimed Cognizant ousted many non-Indian workers by first taking them off projects and “benching” them without work, then keeping them benched until firing them in accordance with a company policy.
Cognizant said Monday it was “disappointed with the verdict” and would appeal.
“We provide equal employment opportunities for all employees and have built a diverse and inclusive workplace that promotes a culture of belonging in which all employees feel valued, are engaged and have the opportunity to develop and succeed,” the company said. “Cognizant does not tolerate discrimination and takes such claims seriously.”
Federal government data show Cognizant obtains H-1B visas for hundreds of Indian citizens to work in Bay Area jobs per year, said Ron Hira, a Howard University professor who studies the visa and testified for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Data from 2023 show Cognizant placed H-1B holders at Bay Area employers ranging from Google, Meta and Apple to PG&E, Kaiser Permanente and Walmart.
@a2 can you code better than ChatGPT?
@ak where do you do this?
you can easily tell which are the h1b jobs by looking up the person they have listed as the recruiter. they are typically not recruiters but work in some type of immigration services group.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/who-is-soham-parekh-the-serial-moonlighter-silicon-valley-startups-cant-stop-hiring/
A whole lot are also working multi jobs and likely not even located where the bank thinks.
Can't recommend strongly enough that people really should start talking with the EEOC. If multi people file a complaint they will open a investigation and start running numbers and its game over for this place. Every big legal firm out there would foam at the mouth to have a class action civil case.
Can you code? Probably very little if any. Just whine and whine
Green card fraud too.