Breaking news it will cost NetApp 100,000 dollars per H1B sponsor now. Kurian will not be happy
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@17z of course it affects NetApp. The very few and small engineering teams left in the US will be fully transition to India. As someone pointed out, a much better approach would be to push American companies to keep some % of their engineering / development work in the US. I have been around for a while to see how the best products and ideas turned into cr-p the moment they were moved over there.
H1B cost increase will not affect NetApp.
They've been transferring jobs to India-BGLR campus anyway.
Nothing to see here.
@tk So many bots(or his cronies) downvoting your comment.
Outsourcing is an even bigger danger. H1B is just the surface.
I think this is a positive move. Hire more American talent. I’m all for it!
Not to get political, but this will either change, get pushed back, or otherwise be altered so many times over some time span it won't matter. There will be exemptions, loopholes, and such so that it won't really impact tech companies.
George and his Woke stuff needs to move on..
@pd don’t forget they said they can give exemptions to whoever they want. This is just another way for the current admin to make tech companies su-k up and capitulate to them.
@c1 Not many Americans understand this is a dog and pony show.
It fixes nothing. There are scores of F1/OPT visas ready to convert to H1Bs. Americans will get the short end as usual. These CEOs have no scruples whatsoever. This is a sick company.
@c1 the fee serves two purposes. First making it to expensive to bring people from overseas here. And second, actually an extension of the first, is to stop companies from bringing people into the country at a lower wage than US employees and then layoff US employees.
As a bonus any new H1B visa will help, ever so slightly, with the governments negative cash flow,
Guess he'll just shut down all the US sites then.
The H1B visa fee increase appears to be primarily an immigration restriction policy disguised as a domestic job creation measure. If the government's genuine goal were to protect American engineering jobs, it would implement policies similar to manufacturing requirements—mandating that tech companies perform a certain percentage of their software development work within US borders, or providing tax incentives for onshore technical operations. Instead, the fee increase simply makes it more expensive to bring foreign workers to America without constraining where companies can actually locate their engineering work.
I hope I'm wrong, but I think the fee increase essentially tips the economic scales further toward offshoring, potentially leaving the US with a hollowed-out engineering base where companies maintain only minimal domestic technical teams for client-facing roles or regulatory compliance. The ironic result could be fewer total engineering opportunities for both American workers and foreign nationals seeking to build careers in the US, while the actual work migrates entirely beyond American borders. NetApp will not absorb these fees, they will simply relocate even more engineering jobs to the office in India.