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H-1B DATA MEGA-THREAD π§΅
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) December 29, 2024
I downloaded five years of H-1B data from the US DOL website (4M+ records) and spent the day crunching data.
I went into this with an open mind, but, to be honest, I'm now *extremely* skeptical of how this program works.
Here's what I found π pic.twitter.com/7MtC1bD8oV
Holy frick dude. Imagine the other programs
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Large companies have large IT projects and can't afford to hire enough resources to do them in-house, because once the project wraps up, they would have to lay all those people off. Kind of pointless. So they hire out consulting firms. Small fish like me can either piggy back on a bigger consulting firm, or bid on small projects that I can do with like 2 - 4 people max. But they can't hire some nobody to do a big project that's going to take a year, so they go to Deloitte or Accenture or Wipro. They know what the game is with these companies, that they put way more people on a project than anyone actually needs, stretch timelines with ridiculous UAT periods, etc. But they also know that these companies will give them an estimated cost that's close enough to the real bill, and that the project will get done.
I'm dealing with code that Deloitte left behind at my biggest client right now. It's buggy and shitty, but it basically works, and now we'll clean up the bugs and it will be fine. So again, Deloitte might cost your company 50 million dollars to implement something, but they will eventually deliver something that mostly works ok.
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Sounds reasonable. So what are people really bitching about? Having to clean up the loose ends?
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I stopped really giving a shit about it a long time ago because I've seen it in action so much. I've worked on projects through Accenture and SRA (big federal government contractor) before and seen first hand what's wrong with their shit (overengineering, too much documentation, too many people, etc). I think the massive bloat and waste of money is offensive, although it's also just one of those things that you can't really do anything about. When I was younger, I thought that this entire field getting flooded with Indians would drive my hourly rates down, but that never came to pass. I don't think increasing H1-Bs is going to change anything significantly.
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Thank you for your time and your reasonable opinion. We are all smarter for it.
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