This is literal indentured servitude.

There is no other term for it happening

at American Express, at Capital 1, at

any of these major tech companies or

financial institutions with large tech

departments. Crucial that you understand

this

AI in this case, I regret to inform you

stands for actually India. Why is it so

hard to get a job in tech right now? If

you're job hunting right now, it might

seem like you're just throwing your

resume into a black hole and you're

never hearing back, but all of these

companies have job postings and all of

them are hiring. What exactly is going

on here? The domestic American workforce

is being replaced by imported cheap

labor and offshored cheap labor. This is

happening in many different sectors, but

it's happening the most in tech. I

worked as director of engineering at

American Express for about a year, 366

days to be exact. And I made a video

about it a few days ago. And one of the

biggest bombshells in that video, among

others, was that MX is bringing in large

numbers of H-1B recipients and giving

them priority treatment over American

citizen employees and job applicants for

their open roles. In addition to this,

they're ramping up their presence in

India and offshoring in mass while

laying off American citizen teams. The

video went well, really well. Tons of

comments. And suspiciously on this

platform, the video was not put in front

of too many people. I'll let you draw

your own conclusions there. But what did

happen is it blew up on other platforms

like X, LinkedIn, and just plain word of

mouth. The number of viewers on that

video that came directly from WhatsApp

or Signal chats that I don't have access

to and I'm unaware of is astounding. And

if those comments reassured me slightly

that I was doing the right thing by

getting this information out there,

telling my story, putting my face, name,

and identity by taking a risk and

getting that story out there. The direct

messages blew my mind. They went way

past that. Just on LinkedIn alone, I

received almost 100 direct messages. not

only of people thanking me, but of

people telling their own stories. Former

AMX employees, current AMX employees, as

well as employees from big tech

companies that said that they see this

going on at XYZ Corporation, as well as

pretty much all of the other major

banks. I even had a couple of friends

reach out that are in very highlevel

leadership positions in other tech

organizations

banking your critical sectors let's just

say reaching out with their stories

saying that they see this happening and

despite the fact that they are in a very

high tenur position at the company

they're unable to do anything to change

it and they're unable to advocate for

American citizen employees despite these

companies all being American companies

the original reason I posted that video

was because the executive VP or the unit

CIO of American Express, Sachin Devon,

he used to be in my chain of command

when I worked there. I worked in his

organization. I spoke with him on

multiple occasions. He posted a LinkedIn

post taking credit for the platinum card

refresh and specifically the technology

underlying that. Meanwhile, I know the

inside story. I know the inside story. I

led the platform team there. It was like

pulling teeth to bring modernization

efforts to American Express's tech

stack. So I simply pointed out in a

comment on his LinkedIn post that things

like API based architecture are table

stakes for modern web app development.

In fact, it's embarrassing that so much

money was spent on this and so little

technological progress was made. And

it's certainly not the fault of the

software engineers. I will tell you that

much from being inside and working at

MX. It is the fault of the leadership.

Almost immediately after I posted that

comment, a flood of you go man comments

came in from my uh friends either

currently or formerly at AMX. And then

rapidly the comment was deleted and AMX

personnel blocked me from viewing

Sachin's LinkedIn page. At that point, I

decided that I had enough to make a

video off of. So I decided to tell

everything that happened to me over the

past year. That's part one of this

story. So go back and watch that if you

haven't seen that video yet. So, the

video comes out, it gets some initial

traction. Like I said, um despite having

very strong characteristics in terms of

its metrics, it's not shown to a lot of

people, let's say, which is surprising

compared to similar metrics on other

videos that I have. But then two things

happen in pretty rapid succession. A

couple days later, I'm looking at my

YouTube analytics and I see sort of the

the regular trend line of views on the

MX video, and then I see it start to go

straight up, and it continues to go

straight up for about an hour. Once more

analytics data comes in, I see that a

lot of that traffic is coming from

Reddit. So I task Claudebot. I say,

"Hey, find the Reddit post that is

driving traffic here." And it found two.

It found one in CS career questions and

it found another in experienced devs.

Those comments were much the same as the

messages I've been receiving. People

sharing their stories, thanking me for

getting this information out there, and

backing up everything I said with their

own experience. Yet, I woke up today and

found two things. On the CS career

questions post, all of my comments

responding to viewers were removed. But

over on Experience Devs, the subreddit,

it's even worse. The post was just

entirely deleted and locked for no

apparent reason. No explanation, no

reasoning for how this violated a rule.

I think they flagged it as

self-promotion, but I was in fact not

the one that posted it. Somebody else

posted it, and I found out about the

traffic from my YouTube analytics. So,

it was taken down for self-promotion,

but I wasn't self-promoting. Somebody

else shared the video. I should note

that on experienced devs, too, it

received about 5 to 600 upvotes, which

does not sound like a lot, but that is

like top of the week for that subreddit.

And then today, I go public with a

project I've been working on since the

video got initial traction, and that's

my site h1bexposed.te.

I post this on HackerNews, which if

you're unfamiliar, this is a programmer

ccentric social media. It's sort of like

a Reddit where there's up votes. You can

give things points. And so I post it on

there and I say, "Here's here's my site.

This is tracking the H-1B numbers for JP

Morgan Chase, American Express, and

Capital One. It's not edit

editorialized. The numbers are there.

The data is there. I say where I site

the data sets from. I'm not making bold

conclusions that aren't clearly

manifested in the data there. And I just

post it. No description, just a just a

title. It gets about 40 or 50 points

within 30 minutes, which on HackerNews

posted late in the day. I've gone viral

on there many times. That is an

extraordinary amount of velocity,

especially for late in the day. And so I

go out this afternoon for a walk with my

wife and my daughter. We go to the

playground for a little bit, come back

about a half hour later, and I go to the

post. It's hidden from the chronological

hacker news feed. And the post has been

flagged. No rule cited, no contact, no

description, nothing. Just Gary Tan's

power fantasies run wild censoring this

news. I will leave it to you, the

viewer, to draw conclusions of why they

might have done this. So, four

platforms, four acts of suppression.

LinkedIn, Reddit, a video hosting

platform I won't name, and now Hacker

News of all places, all within days of

each other. And I have to be honest with

you, this tells me more than any

earnings report could. We deserve to put

American workers first until American

tech unemployment is at an all-time low.

We should not sponsor any more visas or

offshore any of our work to other

countries. We should put our own people

first. At some point, that became a

radical and sensational

standpoint when just 30 years ago when I

was growing up, this was how everybody

felt. But before we get into what I

built, I want to talk about the response

to that video. There was an outpouring

of people thanking me for having the

courage to post it. But I want to read

you three messages that I received

because people reached out privately and

not only did they thank me, they shared

their stories. So I want you to

understand this is not one man's crazy

rant. A lot of you have seen this, but

if you have not seen it and you need

some additional proof, I'm going to read

through these. And if you are terrified

because you messaged me, don't worry.

I've anonymized these so that it is it

is not going to come back to you. So the

first one is from a current engineer at

a major bank and they report up through

the CTO org at their company. He's

Indian-American. He grew up here in

America. He believed in the American

dream. His words, not mine. He sent me a

DM on LinkedIn and said, "It's getting

ridiculous at AMX. I myself am

Indian-American and and am shocked by

the incompetence, nepotism, and greed on

display. I've been working here for a

number of years now. Let that sit for a

second. This is not some disgruntled ex

employee, which is maybe how you view

me. This is a guy who's there right now

who came from the same community that's

supposedly benefiting from this system.

And he's telling me privately that it is

broken. to continue. He asked how he can

support my work going on here, that he

would like to share it publicly, like it

publicly, but he knows he can't do any

of that publicly because he will be

retaliated on. They will trump up

charges to put him on a performance

improvement plan and kick him out

because he's supporting me talking about

this. The second message comes from a

former contractor of a major bank,

Taiwanese American, and hired through

one of these consulting firms to the

bank. She told me when she recounted

this in in such a way that it mirrors

almost identical to my first day at MX.

She said that she was excited to work

into the U in the US and she walked into

the office and it was almost all Indian

nationals. Her co-workers, her manager,

her director. She said that 90% of the

contractors were on H-1B or OPT visas.

When her contract ended, she applied to

come back. No interview, no feedback.

They rehired a former Indian co-orker on

OPT who had less experience than her

instead. And in fact, I had to do this

when hiring a manager at American

Express. The way that this is supposed

to work at American Express is when a

role becomes open, when a manager spot

becomes open, you must interview for the

role and you must take additional

candidates from inside the company. And

so there was a promising individual that

I wanted to promote into the role, but I

am interested in doing this in a fair

way. And instead of interviewing a

number of other internal candidates,

they threw me someone who was obviously

unqualified to make the case that we did

our due diligence, we did our vetting. I

was instructed by my manager, the VP of

engineering, to do it this way, that it

was intentionally a farce because we

needed to create the role and interview

somebody to give the appearance that

this was an open role that other people

could apply to. I still regret and feel

some shame that I did not push back

harder. But I am not one of these

wealthy dudes. I need to work for a

living. I have a kid. I have a wife that

I support. I'm a soul breadwinner. So,

you can judge me harshly. I I certainly

judge myself harshly for for doing that,

but I had to keep keep the money coming

in and keep the food on the table. So,

this woman goes on to say in her

account, this is something that I had no

idea of. She said that consulting firms

have a scheme that if you're on the

bench, so you're between client

assignments. You get one of these

consulting firms like Tata or Infosys or

one of the other big ones that are

basically shell companies to help mass

immigration into the country. They'll

farm you out, right? They're like a

pimp. And so they'll they'll farm you

out to a company and you work there. You

work a six-month contract, you work a

12-month contract, then the contract's

over. Maybe it doesn't get renewed, so

you go back on the bench. And so this is

effed up. I had no idea that this was

going on. So if you're on the bench,

let's say you do a 6-month stint in

American Express, talking about it like

it's a prison, kind of is. And then they

don't renew your contract and you're

working for Tata. Technically, they they

farm you out to AMX. Contract doesn't

get renewed. and you're on the bench for

three months at Tata. They pay you to do

nothing during those three months. Okay,

which sounds pretty good, right? You get

to keep your H-1B visa. You get to stay

in the country. You get to keep some

benefits. Um, you know, you you you get

to keep what you've fought for. And

then, hey, Cap 1 gives a call. They got

a spot open. They farm you out to

Capital One. Now, the effed up part, and

I cannot believe that this is not

illegal. you need to know this and I'm

grateful for her to for relaying it to

me is those 3 months that you were on

the bench and getting paid by the

consulting firm, you need to pay them

back once you get your new assignment,

which is like literal indentured

servitude. So, this is literal

indentured servitude. There's no other

term for it happening at American

Express, at Capital 1, at any of these

major tech companies or financial

institutions with large tech

departments. It's crucial that you

understand this. Third one, current

employee at Amazon Web Services. He

described walking through the corporate

offices and said his words, quote, "It's

like an office block in Mumbai during

monsoon season." His words, not mine. He

said, "Once you get one Indian import

manager, they hire almost exclusively

from the same culture. If they do hire

an American, it's short-term to meet the

quota. Hello, exhibit A at at annex.

Hire hire the white guy to make it look

like we're not totally racist." and then

squeeze them out after a year so we

don't have to keep them around because

he's going to start talking about really

inconvenient stuff like this. I did some

digging on the statistics around this.

Here's a number that should spook you

pretty bad. With the recent US layoffs

at AWS, those have been massive. We've

been covering those on the channel for

the past couple of months now. For every

one American worker laid off at AWS,

five more were hired in India. Five for

one. All of this done under the guise of

AI. If you want to know the neural

linguistic programming tricks that

they're using to sell this to

stakeholders, please look at my other

videos. I outline this very clearly.

It's easy to miss. And the AI in this

case, I regret to inform you, stands for

actually India. These messages are a

tiny fraction of what came in. Almost

100 DMs on LinkedIn, countless messages

on X. I'm still going through them.

People have found out my private email

and started emailing me there. Uh it is

it is insane. and I will never get

through all of the messages. All of them

are telling the same story and all of

them are terrified to speak out about

it. Terrified. And so, who who is behind

all of the banning and the blocking that

is going around with me talking about

this lately? It's just very clear that

they don't want these videos talking

about this in front of people, that the

algorithm is penalizing me, that they

don't want me posting on social media

sites about this, that whenever it gets

traction, it's like sticking your head

up above the grass and getting mowed

down. They do not want people to rally

around somebody talking about this. And

so, I cannot prove that American Express

called Reddit moderators. I can't prove

coordination, but I can observe the

pattern. comment deleted, profile

blocked, viral post removed,

shadowbanned, as I've found out in a few

instances. All pointing in the same

direction and all starting right after

that story started to get a crazy amount

of traction. And American Express

executives, I know you're watching

because I've seen a number of you on my

LinkedIn profile views. And after I

mentioned that in the other video, you

still visit my page. I'm planning on

posting that soon in a future video so

everyone could see how silly you look. I

mean, this is damage control 101 and you

are botching it. You are fumbling the

football. But on this channel, we always

follow the data and so that's exactly

what I've done. So, let me show you what

I built. This is my new website,

h1bexposed.te.

This is live on the web now. You can

visit it now. We'll see if my hosting

provider drops me. We'll see how long we

can keep this site online. And what this

site is is the result of a ton of

research I've done on this goound and

pre-existing research that I had while I

was at AMX to try to see, hey, am I

crazy that things are a little bit nutty

here with the visa situation? I have so

much information here from let's go down

to my sources here. Primarily coming

from Department of Labor, we have USCIS

employer data hub that has been

illustrative. uh SEC 10K filings to

start to corroborate numbers between

what these companies are saying in their

earnings reports. We can start to glean

a little bit of secret information and

then of course Bureau of Labor

Statistics so I'm not making erroneous

claims about what the average or median

uh salary for XYZ type of engineer is.

So let's just go through this a little

bit. Let's pop into let's do American

Express. So, the first thing you're

going to notice here is LCA filings

versus H-1B approvals. Their approval

rate for H-1Bs is 99.1%.

That means somebody in that office is

just slapping a rubber stamp on those

applications and saying, "Bring them in.

Bring them in. I don't care. American

citizen workers." No. No. No. No. No.

No. No. Nope. We are going to pay

actually above median. We're going to

we're going to pay these dudes 151K. uh

even though the median is 130k but

remember they got to work 80 hours a

week and I've this is not me you know

any anything you want to nail on me this

is not me other people have contacted me

and said I am on H-1B they make us work

insane hours I cannot say no or else I

have to go home and I lose my insurance

I feel like a slave that should not be

the case in this country whether you're

a citizen or not so the first thing

you're going to notice about AMX

statistics and I've seen this before is

they play a clever shell name. They have

two major companies that they bucket

these applications under. One is

American Express, I believe. The other

one is American Express Global Business

Travel. Those are the two major ones.

And then they have three or four

additional companies that have like 10

to 50 applications on them. So, they've

spread this around. So, you're never

going to see them in the headlines. And

this is actually fairly clever. you're

never going to see them in the headlines

because they spread their numbers around

a couple different companies. So,

they're never going to rank highly.

Like, when you see those top 10 lists of

how many H-1Bs were were, you know,

sponsored by a company, they they've

been fairly clever. And the researchers

on those posts have been lazy and not

really dug into the evidence because

they've only considered the company,

American Express, Inc. or whatever it

is, to be the entire company when really

it's spread across multiple different

shell corporations. So you have a very

tough time keeping track of how many

they've sponsored. All of these

companies are also playing geographic

arbitrage. And what I mean by that is

the and I noticed this. This was

actually crazy. So let me tell you a

story first and then I'll explain what

this means. So I'm working at American

Express and I'm there for a month or two

and I get called away to this uh

business trip to go to um like the main

office in in Manhattan in New York City.

I've never actually been to New York

City before. was like super stoked. And

I get there and I go into the office.

It's really nice tower. It's right

across from uh where the World Trade

Center was. Uh beautiful view. Take the

the elevator up to one of the floors.

And I'm there over, you know, a couple

of couple of days and I'm on a couple of

different floors in big meetings with

people and I noticed something. I'm

like, there aren't a lot of Indians

here. And that that's pretty strange

because uh Phoenix is almost entirely

Indians. And if you don't believe me, I

mean, I could tell you where their

headquarters is. If you just sit at the

stoplight out there, uh, park your car

in the dirt, there's a little dirt

across the road. Just sit there and just

look at people, uh, stopped making the

turns into the stoplight, you you'll see

what I'm saying. This isn't racist. This

is just I this is just visually looking

at people and I the demographic is,

let's say, very very very different in

New York. I think, huh, this is kind of

strange. So, the thing that I dug into

and all the companies are doing this to

some degree, although they all have

their own shape about it, is they are

bringing these H-1Bs in and then they

are stashing them or making them work in

places that have a lower cost of living.

So, for American Express, I've never

been to their Florida campus, but I

would suspect it's much the same there

in Hollywood, Florida, I believe it is,

or Sunrise maybe. But in Phoenix,

Arizona, the cost of living, as you'll

see here, uh cost of living index is 97,

which is about half of what it is in New

York at 187. And you'll see here by the

stats, over half are placed in Phoenix.

And they don't account for this wage

difference, too. So, of course, you

know, if given the choice, you're going

to choose Phoenix. Who wouldn't? I mean,

it's a better city anyways, but you can

fight me about that in the comments.

Now, here's the real lead here. Only 34%

34% of MX's workforce is based in the

US. And remember, many of those are not

US citizens. If you want the full report

and Capital One and JP Morgan Chase are

on there as well. I plan to add more

companies starting to feray into big

tech uh as time goes on if there's

sufficient interest in this website. But

spread it around. Go take a look at the

numbers and form your own conclusions.

All of the data is there. All of my

sources are cited. You can go pull this

data yourself and run the numbers if you

want to. Uh nothing is hidden or

editorialized there. This is really what

is happening. This is my own experience,

but now we have numbers to back it up.

It's the experience of hundreds of other

people that have messaged me, hundreds

of people in the comments. This is

what's happening in our country. So,

three major banks, thousands of H-1B

approvals a year, employees at all of

them telling the same story

independently and anonymously,

which is how you know it's true.

Performance ratings are rigged and in

some cases done by race and certainly

are weighted towards gender, too. I

haven't even gotten into the rampid

sexism that I saw at American Express.

Nothing makes my blood boil more than

turning this field that used to be very

meritocratic into something that is not

meritocratic anymore. Uh it bugs the

hell out of me. American workers are

pushed out and offshore centers are

expanding. And then when you put these

numbers into a video into a website and

start to talk about them, most places

block you or make sure that nobody of

any consequence is ever going to see it.

This isn't a conspiracy theory. These

are Department of Labor filings. These

are USCIS documents. This is data that

the government collected and made

available. And we can assume that those

numbers are already cooked to some

degree. I just put it on a website where

you can actually go through it. Again,

I'll link that in the description. It's

h1bexposed.te.

It is free. There is no payw wall. There

is no login. The link is in the

description. And I urge you, please go

take a look at those numbers yourself

and share that with other people. Lord

knows I can't post it anywhere without

getting banned, blocked, or

shadowbanned. And like I said, if this

pattern holds, I bet somebody will go

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