Literally every H1B I've worked with was a brilliant engineer, while every second engineer from India I worked with was absolutely clueless, had no idea what he was doing, and had to conduct hours upon hours of meetings just to solve every tiny bug or problem. I'm pretty sure that most of Intel problems with shipping every server product 2 years late to the market began when we started doing platform validation and other critical activities in India.
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I have posted this before and I will say it again.
It's not for lack of trying. We have people from Purdue, U Mich, Northwestern etc. in my little group.
Fast forward 2 years --> all those american kids from elite universities have already moved onto Apple, Nvidia etc. leaving behind only the H1Bs.
It's easy to hire brilliant RCGs especially in a dog job market like this one, but retaining them at INTC? lol, good luck. A few smart ones stick around, become managers or something and after a while, surround themselves with weak H1B simps for building their own little empires and silos. And so the comedy drags on......
Last I looked, Intel has huge locations in India, China, Malaysia, Israel and other locations. There is very little reason to bring anyone here on H1B - when they can still work for Intel in their home country. We are seeing a terrible hiring market in tech and even qualified US citizens are being turned away. Stop 80% of H1Bs and put American engineers back to work!
F the whites!
For every 10 H1B out of India, 2 are fantastic. The rest 8 are community college equivalents who got a Masters by plagiarizing and holding on to their jobs by endless meetings and politics. I have to admit that EU H1Bs and most Chinese H1Bs are top notch but there are less of them because why would they move to the US to work for Intel. It’s a massive downgrade in quality of life. The O1 Einstein visa exists for top foreign talent. For the other 8 out of 10 mediocre H1Bs, I could hire out of community colleges and Oregon State and University of New Mexico and train them. At least we then have a culture that does not over promise and under deliver and can truthfully say No when things are unrealistic.
They aren't more EU H1Bs because moving to the US would be a massive massive downgrade in terms of paid leave, maternity benefits, culture, food and overall work-life balance.
India Universities are universally fake and the Masters are equivalent to a high school diploma in Harlem. However, the people from India are brilliant.
It’s one enormous scam on the American people. Why aren’t there more European H1Bs? The majority are from only 2 countries.
The real problem is that Intel can't attract better engineers.
That is needed to improve process and product, but they can't afford or attract the best talent because of the state of process and product.
Turning that around is hard. Look at what it took for AMD to do that, and they were only dealing with the product side.
Now that lead product can be outsourced to TSMC, the revenues will improve enough to pay for better talent. Likewise if or when IFS picks up more external customers, and cleans up its bloated headcount.
Everything is fixable and LBT may be the guy to enable the right thing to be done.
In LTD it’s more like: literally every engineer I’ve worked with is an H1B.