If you are a laidoff tech worker or

recent CS grad and you are getting

ghosted in your job hunt, you are not

alone.

You did everything right. You have

experience, you did projects, you got

referrals, and you still can't land a

first interview. And on the occasion you

do, you're cast out for seemingly no

reason after one or two rounds.

Meanwhile, it seems like every major

company has hundreds of job postings

available, but you just can't connect

with one. And I see so much gaslighting

going on by YouTubers, other streamers

talking about how you just got to work

harder. You just got to do more

projects. You just got to work for free

and take a lower salary. But I'm here to

tell you, you are not crazy. The market

is uniquely sideways right now. And a

huge part of it that nobody wants to

talk about is the replacement of

American workers by H-1B visa employees.

And when you are a qualified tech worker

and you cannot break into the market,

you cannot change jobs, it starts to

feel a bit rigged because it is. I've

been digging into this issue and in my

first video, my tell- all expose of what

I saw as engineering director at

American Express, the way in which

executives started to replace American

workers by offshoring to India or by

importing H-1B workers and treating them

better than American citizen workers. I

got so many messages from you and I

continue to get so many messages from

you. All of them say a couple things.

Thank you for speaking up and this is

also happening at my company or in the

case of AMX, this is also happening in

my department, my organization. But the

biggest offender, hands down, the

undisputed king of H1B is Amazon. All of

the numbers are on my new website, H1B

exposed. And I've just added a new page

for Amazon. And you know, we always

follow the money here. We go back to the

numbers, the facts, and the statistics.

And we're going to get into that. But I

want to give a disclaimer before we

start discussing the numbers. It should

go without saying, but people will twist

my words. If I was in India or another

country with a lower standard of living

than America, I would do everything in

my power to come to America. This is not

the individual's fault at all. In fact,

many H1B visa recipients have reached

out to me also thanking me for my videos

because they get a raw deal, too. But

we're concerned about what that means

for the American worker. And if we just

think about it in terms of raw

economics, it's a supply and demand

problem. If you have a workforce, a tech

workforce of American tech workers, and

you introduce a lot of additional labor

into that talent pool, labor that is

always under the threat of being sent

back to their home country, which they

obviously put everything on the line to

come to not their home country, at any

moment they could be sent back. And so,

of course, they're going to work

weekends, work evenings. they will be

paid lower salaries and accept it

because the standard of living bump is

higher than where they came from. Which

again, I'm not blaming the person, but

for the American worker, what this means

is all of a sudden you have an immense

amount of competition of bodies for

those roles that cannot say no, that

will work 80 hours a week, that will

accept lower wages, and it drives the

standard of living and the standard of

work down for the American worker. So,

let's get into the numbers. As I

mentioned, Amazon is the king of H-1B.

They're averaging about 20,000 or more

LCA filings by year. And you can see the

correlated approval rate. It's

essentially the government is rubber

stamping any visas that Amazon is

applying for for their workers. You can

see approval rate 98.5, 97,

98.3, 98.6. So essentially, they're not

even looking at these applications.

They're just stamping them and moving on

to the next one. And over the past six

years, that's amounted in 133,000

LCA filings with a 97 to 98% approval

rating. Now, in my follow-up to the MX

video, you'll have noticed also that I

pointed out MX does something shady.

They have multiple business entities.

The reason they do this is so they don't

stick out like a sore thumb when you

look at these LCA filings. If they sort

of distribute the LCA filings across

multiple different business entities or

companies on that list, then they don't

have one massive number on the page

that's very easy to see in the data. You

really have to dig for it. Nobody does

this better than Amazon. I found

slightly over 20 different business

entities that roll up into Amazon in the

LCA filing documents. I think I got them

all, but honestly, I have no idea. I

know the ones that I got were accurate,

but there's probably more that I missed.

So, if anything, the numbers I'm

presenting to you tonight are at worst

accurate and at best conservative. Now,

Amazon may look good on the face of it.

You see here the average H-1B salary

167,818

versus the Bureau of Labor Statistics

market median, $130,000 thereabouts. So,

what Amazon is doing is they're actually

paying a premium on top of the floor for

those salaries. The reason that they're

doing this and the reason that this

doesn't really reflect the whole picture

is that BLS market median is for the

country, right? So if I say to you, you

know, I'm going to give you 130k a year

to come on as a software developer to

drcimmons.com.

Okay, hiring you. Welcome aboard. You

can work anywhere. Do you want that 130k

in Iowa or Seattle? Obviously, if you're

trying to max the amount you're saving

and you don't care about living in Iowa,

no offense, Iowa, then you're going to

take Iowa as opposed to Seattle. Most of

Amazon's employment, remember, they have

one of the harshest return to office

policies now. And their major offices

are in where? New York City and Seattle.

And I'll tell you, $167,000

in New York City, not cutting it. So, it

looks good on paper, but it really still

anchors the salary below a competitive

minimum. The top H-1B occupations that

Amazon is sponsoring visas for are

exactly the folks that are watching this

video and the folks that are out of

work. You're either software engineer,

you work in tech, or maybe you're tech

adjacent. Everybody's finances are

affected by the tech sector. Like it or

not, now it's such a major driving part

of the US economy that if the tech

sector has working rights and salaries

driven down, it affects everything else.

But if we look at the top H-1B

occupations that Amazon has sponsored

for, we see software developers here at

the top. That's at about 43% of all of

their filings is a software engineer,

software developer. Then you have

another term for software developers.

This is classified slightly differently.

Computer and information systems

managers. So this is going to be your

project manager, your product manager,

business intelligence analysts. This

would be business dev, your people

working in sales, ops research analyst,

which I think is mostly what I just

mentioned for business as well. Then

system software research scientists. So,

uh, most of these are just tech workers

or or tech adjacent for those top

occupations being sponsored for H-1B

visas at Amazon. And so, here's where it

becomes very predatory, honestly, is

Amazon is willing to offer you a path to

citizenship. You can apply for perm or a

green card. And again, Amazon is the

king of this, too. For reference, JP

Morgan filed about 3,200. Capital 1

about 900. That means Amazon is doing

about 8x of the PERM applications that

JP Morgan is that process because I saw

a couple of colleagues go through it at

American Express when I was there. It

can take years. And during that process,

you cannot change employers. So, you are

extra over the coals for whatever they

want to make you do. You cannot f it up.

You cannot take time off. You cannot

chill for a minute because you they'll

yank your citizenship away. This is just

one tale out of many. My work is not

done on h1bexposed.

I will continue to add companies as you

call them out in the comments and on my

ex account. So again, if you are in tech

or tech adjacent really any industry,

like I said, the ripple effects are all

across the market because this is

happening at such a disturbing scale

across so many disciplines. This is why

my work is not done here. I plan on

continuing to add companies to

h1bexposed.te

based on what you comment on the video,

the companies that I should do. Tell me

what you're seeing at your company. Keep

sending those messages on X on LinkedIn.

Let me know your stories. I want to

retell them here. I want to preserve

your anonymity, but we need to get the

word out about this. If I had to put my

if I had to put my fortune teller cap

on, I'd say that these stats are going

to start to get real cooked the more

that we look into them and publicize

them. So, I wouldn't be surprised if you

see some of this data being pulled off

of web pages or companies trying more

shady things like having a bajillion

business entities to file these under in

the future. So, it makes it very hard to

parse through this data. It's already

very hard to parse through these data

sets. You can go take a look on your

own, but I have been taking a long time

to look through these to compile these

statistics. And like I said, I think at

best case they're accurate, at worst

case they're conservative. And if you

want the shady behind-the-scenes numbers

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for watching. And as with my other

videos on immigration policy, on

fighting for the American worker, the

algorithm has not been very kind to me

for maybe what might be obvious reasons.

If you're a regular viewer here, I'm now

mirroring my videos on Rumble, so you

can also go take a look over there. My

time might be limited here, but in the

meantime, please be sharing this on X,

on Facebook, on any social media you

got. Share it with a friend that needs

to see this. If you are trying to get a

job right now in tac tech adjacent, even

outside of the industry, and you are

just not even getting call backs or

getting rejected for just nonsense

reasons, this is one of the main reasons

why they don't want you talking about

this. Share this around. Thank you for

watching.