Why would Honeywell bring foreign engineer to work 11 months in US on some visa, then back to home country for ~1 month, and then back to US for 11 months (repeat cycle)? Was told that Honeywell pays for their housing and car along with salary. Is this a way to avoid some federal H1B limitation or something?
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Offshore is the new code word for outsource...all commercial Non ITAR to india and the ITAR related job will stay in US and Puerto Rico....for now
HA! You get what you pay for and this no exception. The only benefit is for HON short-term bottom line. No, these are not better or harder working engineers, only lower paid and less motivated. I've worked with a few (~8) and while the ability may be "in there somewhere", the results are weak and experience is non-existant. In the long term, a lot of their work has to be redone by the experienced full-time engineers (or even technicians) unlucky enough to still be around. It only adds to the schedule/cost problems HON corporate keeps citing - they're the ones creating the problems.
Less knowledge is more dangerous than no knowledge. Those foreign engineers dont get paid as US engineer. They get per diem which is minimal to survive with food. Their salary is paid in native country currency not dollars and it does not change. That means if an engineer from east is paid 2000 USD per month in his home country, he continues to get that and per diem of 40-50 USD for daily expenses on food. Hotel and car is paid by company
To pay cheap labor costs! As the result, less and less of US engineers know how to do the jobs efficiently. This gives them more reasons to hire cheaper foreign engineers because less of us know how. The cycle repeats.
Yeah, right, maybe he is the best in the world, cannot find one from the US (with the best universities...). Or is it maybe because most of the new Hon groups are created offshore and need to slowly transition and transfer work. Take a look at the jobs site....
Maybe the worker is better and works harder and they want to help progress the career.