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This assumes that the H1B's filed by the outsourcing companies are engineers your startup would want to hire. Unfortunately thats not true, most good quality engineers are almost never employed by these outsourcing firms. The general nature of their work also is mostly maintenance based , and it tends to attract bottom of the barrel 'engineers' who often couldn't find any other job. I am skeptical whether any of these 'engineers' would pass the interview gauntlet at many startups.

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This is why we think there's an opportunity for us (Triplebyte). Smaller companies have to focus their recruiting on pools with a high expected ROI (top technology companies/schools/etc). We're specializing in identifying talent without using any of the the usual signals (we do our technical interviews without looking at resumes). We can focus on pools of talent that other companies might not consider because they expect the majority of candidates wouldn't be a good fit.

Also in this particular case, I fundamentally believe there are a number of talented engineers working at these outsourcing companies because it was their only option and they're too afraid to move.

It also assume they won't terminate the H-1B when the employee is leaving.

IANAL, but you can apply for a transfer without the original employer knowledge, and once that transfer is approved, then the previous employer can do nothing about that.

From everything I read, your current employer HAS to accept the transfer. Makes it way more trickier than what the blog makes it look like.

This is why they should keep resumes on file for H1Bs. The major reason they are poorly qualified is because they lie on their resumes.

My friends brother is 24 and has listed 5 years of experience on his resume even though he has none. Now he is working for a major bank in critical financial infrastructure.

I believe there're still some talented engineer in outsourcing company. There outsourcing team doing our code testing has couple pretty good people and we actually considered to hire them to work for us directly. But yes I agree most engineers in those company are not capable to do the work a hot startup is dealing with. In the end, the majority of talented and highly educated foreign engineers who probably has a top US college degree are still betting their career on a stupid lottery.

In India the jobs represents a pretty good way to get out so you will end up with good people.

I doubt it. You'll wind up with people who studied engineering because their parents made them do it and because it pays well, not because they enjoy it or they're particularly good at it.

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