H1B Workers Are Treated Like Garbage

[@catmaxi2599]

Amazon is like 80% h1b lol

[@Blackoutwhiteout23]

there are 85k h1b a year

[@onlinealias622]

I work at AWS, it sure feels like it is

[@TheTrackoShow]

You havent heard of Microsoft then

[@funrelo]

This should be the top trending video on KZbin India. Ramesh's father Suresh won't push his son west.

[@nananou1687]

As if he will get his due in India

[@yashpatel261]

You have not worked in india.

[@funrelo]

Agree guys, just that the fear of deportation is something else.

[@SUJAMUK]

​@@nananou1687 what do you mean by "due"? A skilled hard working person will succeed anywhere in the world. You don't have to work under anybody. Lots of people provide on line teaching. You may not earn what you want but you will earn peace of mind and respect. Many will react saying it's easy said than done. You have to explore different fields. NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.

[@opa-age]

When I was on H1-B 30 yrs ago things didn't seem this bad, but I think companies have gotten smarter and learned how to exploit the system.

[@rohanutep81]

Lucky you!!

[@laxmankodali]

At last, some one spoke the truth amidst all the hatred.

[@leochung97]

My senior manager during my time in corporate was an H1B worker from Vietnam - she was the hardest working individual I have ever worked with. People like her should be rewarded with citizenship or permanent residency instead of threatened with deportation.

[@the_varunrana]

@@leochung97 YES!

[@rafaelmateodev]

Mine was from India. The laziest person I've seen in my life. Made me take the position I have now on H1B: only at the very specialized PhD level because anyone can code and there are too many american coders unemployed. H1Bs, just like any people, can be good or bad at their job. Better give the experience to an american and see if they'll be good or bad in the long run.

[@Spencer0225]

Nah

[@akj3344]

​@@rafaelmateodevwhos more likely to work harder though? Someone who has very little negative consequences or someone who will have to fly back home? This is how companies make decisions.

[@curtisw0234]

As much as I want to give people citizenship, if you give it out too easily the population of the country could explode out of control which is a problem because the housing and infrastructure necessary to support population growth doesn't get created overnight

[@TastelessSoftware]

I started my software engineering career in 2007 immediately after getting my CS degree. I wondered why I was one of the only Americans working in the cubicle farm where I was employed (seriously it was like 1 American for every 20 foreigners). I quickly realized the work was awful. It was incredibly boring, tedious, and stressful (working on a legacy codebase, and sometimes debugging issues running on machines thousands of miles away). It was mostly desperate people that stuck with it. That's why there were no Americans. God that job was so boring my eyes would start watering and I would become dissociated. I would have to get up and take walks just to keep my sanity. It seems like now, in 2025, people are starting to figure out that software engineering isn't a great career for everyone. I think it took that long because people hear about the chance to earn high pay in America and tell all of their friends about the one person they heard about who has a 500k salary and everyone thinks it's easy.

[@MixingStudiosOfficial]

H1B is a modern day slavery that nobody wants to talk about. Thanks for bringing it up Varun ❤ I was student myself in USA and worked there a couple of years . Although I got selected, I didn’t want to proceed with H1B program because it was literally screwed up and there was no light at the end of tunnel for a Green card Permanent residency. Hence I chose to exit the U.S and live peacefully at a better country that respects immigrants lives and their talents.

[@01theprinceway]

for viewers benefits which is that better country? @MixingStudiosOfficial

[@bharghavak]

Where'd you go?

[@conniewaterman1673]

You are smart!

[@kval-w2h]

Congrats. You had a great presence of mind and decision making ability. I realized how bad things were but was unable to make decent decisions because of financial reasons. I'm beyond destroyed with failed relationships, personal life, ruined financially and career wise. With Indians it is a very wicked structure of surveillance and exploitation down to the level of caste and clan at times.

[@lightspeedlion]

You did the right thing. After spending my energy and precious time in America, now I plan to go back to India. This is not the America I came for. Had I knew they discriminate us for every job application, wouldve never stepped front. Good days are over.

[@rafaelmateodev]

Here's the thing: they are brought in because of "talent". But I've worked with terrible H1Bs as much as I've worked with good ones. Guess what, same thing with americans of any origin. Reasonably, it is not ethical to have 1 million unemployed tech people in your country and hire from another country, ESPECIALLY when what I said is true. H1B's for a PhD Mathematician in the field of AI? Sure. H1B for a coder? Give me a break. Like, really, give me a break. There are a LOT of CS grads unemployed dying to get experience. The only reason why they are hired, is not talent, it is money.

[@the_varunrana]

@@rafaelmateodev I agree that it comes down to money and cost of hiring. American CS grads want experience but are super likely to quit when things suck. Engineer churn is a software company’s worst nightmare and major bottleneck to growth. Loyal H1B workers that stay put gets the most productivity per dollar and justifies the cost of hiring over the long term.

[@singhyuvraj122]

Nobody cares about your CS degree. Companies only care about shareholders profit every quarter. That's only guaranteed when people with more than 5 years of experience work 7 days a week and 14 to 16 hrs a day just to keep software companies running and that reduces wages per hour drastically for Indian employees and high profit for US clients. So I like to say You're mentally innocent. May God bless you.

[@singhyuvraj122]

28 to 50 dollars is the cost per hour.

[@akj3344]

"Reasonably, it is not ethical..." You are saying big tech companies do stuff that's unethical? I'm shocked 😲

[@Freecoke6]

@@the_varunrana These people are filling up the management positions so they can exclusively only hire other indians, and then filling positions with their WIVES, whom have next to zero previous tech experience or education. It's not about american workers not wanting to do the "hard work". How is that the case when an office full of indians are offloading all of their work onto the couple token americans/whites they kept there for that purpose? We're talking about the most aggressively nepotistic tribal group of people on earth, bringing that mindset here and capturing our companies and institutions with it

[@Zizook]

I’m not Indian, but having a foreign worker perspective while working around them is pretty cool

[@davidbest4291]

You comparison to the people who built the railroads while being excluded from social institutions will probably stick with me in one form or another for life.

[@sirjonaz]

I was on an H1B visa 15 years ago. Thanks for making this video; it makes many valid points. I recall working 10 to 12 hours but only billing 8. And yes, I have also witnessed many colleagues whose career growth has been stunted. The analogy to the transcontinental railroad is perfect. "Fat Jeff Principal-Engineer Type," Yes!!! There's one or two in every org! 🤣

[@knuthatsgut123]

Great that you are speaking up. This H1B Visa system is slavery. In India, you are only allowed to work a maximum of 48 hours a week; as an H1B in the US, there is no legal maximum. So managers can threaten you with losing your job (deportation) and make you work every waking second of your life that you are not sleeping, which will inevitably lead to burnout, but instead of treating the burnout, they will just deport you.

[@gauravtejpal8901]

Varun, the vast majority of kids in India have been treated like garbage by their parents, their teachers, random authority figures, you name it...since the time that they were born. Out here, it is the price for 'fitting in' and 'making it'. I'm sorry to say, they are used to it, don't know anything else and frankly prefer it

[@the_varunrana]

@@gauravtejpal8901 damn lol

[@gauravtejpal8901]

​@@the_varunrana Tell me when I'm telling lies

[@Brentfindley]

Your comparison of modern H1Bs to the Transcontinental railroad is so spot on, I never really made that connection. I am a pasty white male tech worker, who has also seen H1B mistreatment in this field, and it's just totally deplorable how universal it is.

[@Coder-jy5ih]

I would feel bad for the h1b workers if more than half the ones I know didn’t lie their way to the job. Some of them would be graduating in business major and then working as a devops engineer after graduation with no skills whatsoever. Some people would straight start as a senior engineer with fake experience. So apart from the few gems who actually has skills and worked hard to get the job, all the other ones are just exploiting it

[@ansh2771]

its like 10% bad apples in h1b. mgmt wouldnt care and would deport them( ive seen 2 indians and a chinese lie on their resume and get fired the very next day). one of the indians lied about his gpa but was a phenomenal worker, but the other one was an entitled slacker. the bad ones just stick out more. source - worked as an h1b at FAANG for 5 years, and have friends in HR.

[@bastetowl3258]

it’s not their fault that the company hiring them doesn’t have a rigorous hiring process. they just want cheap labor by any means necessary

[@eth6869]

You definitely worked in a tier-3 company then. Not the flex you think it is.

[@Coder-jy5ih]

@@eth6869 what are tier 1 company then? Which one do you work at?

[@Chillycloth]

They also only hire their own people

[@duke_155]

All 7 of my team members who are on H1b are subscribed to you

[@the_varunrana]

Tell them I greatly appreciate their support 🙏🏾

[@duke_155]

Thank you for putting this up. This is such a genuine take from any H1B’s perspective and on the continuous anxiety that runs through. I almost everyday listen to my peers being worried about their life/stability here whenever we hangout or get lunch. The situation is uncertain and scary but we try to support each other in the ways we can.

[@BangMaster96]

America always used cheap foreign labor to build their infrastructure and technologies, and then treated them like trash for 'taking away American jobs'. Same thing is true for Dubai. These rich nations have a native population of People that don't want to do laborious work, they just want to hire cheap foreigners to do their work, but they also don't want these foreign immigrants to remain in their nation once the work is done. This started from slavery where they brought in Africans, then the waves of immigration from poor European communities, then the latino immigrants, then the Chinese and Japanese immigrants, and now the hate is geared towards Indian immigrants. It's always someone else's fault that White Americans are struggling with inflation, unemployment, lack of higher income jobs, etc., but never the fault of their own Government and Corporations that screw them in the ass. But, there is no stopping this system because a lot of People in the World are desperate to come into America at any cost and will do any kind of work for cheap. This is why this system will continue to exist as long as America is the dominant global economy and superpower.

[@watamutha]

God who wouldve guessed if theyre allowed to treat you like a slave they will

[@ppiriou]

H1B or not, all big consulting companies will take all the juice from their employees day and night and over the weekends with the promise of a promotion or salary increase.

[@toqertv]

I got about halfway through your video before I had to stop. I've been in IT, DevSecOps, QA, and Onprem for 30 years in Silicon Valley. You paint this apathetic picture of poor brown masses huddled together immigrating for a better life, but you don't talk about how companies like InfoSys and Tata act as middle-men for Indian tech leaders to import their cousins, nephews, nieces, etc while bringing little to nothing to the talent pool or workplace. You don't talk about how there's 1.6 million H1-B's in the US now, with the majority in Silicon Valley, causing a huge housing deficit. You don't talk about how the caste system is brought over, and the racist and misogynistic practices of Indian hiring managers in tech. It's rare to see women ascend to positions of technical authority. Southern Indians (like Tamil) are treated like trash by the Northerners/New Delhi. You blame white people left and right, when time and time again I've seen your own people exploiting their own. It's not just white people, your own people do a pretty good job of oppressing yourselves without white peoples help.

[@shaivamuthaiya2015]

I agree with this, the way the narrative is pushed is almost like slavery and discrimination is by white people only. Having lived in India I have seen so many problems almost identical to these at all levels even among the "educated college degree" kinds. These people move abroad and bring every bad habit from home and try to turn other countries into a version of their own home country. Then then show off their status and demand huge sums of money to brides as an opportunity to leave India. Why else would some random woman in India marry a H1B worker she has never met in her life. IMO indians are one of the most racist people, discriminating on age, gender, caste, dietary preference an anything else. The university I went to didn't allow people to eat chicken on campus cause the owner was a vegetarian like wtf is that ?

[@mukta4689]

I lost you but then I saw your last paragraph. And you're absolutely right. It's not the whites. It's people of our nationality who have turned into citizens now exploit us of the same nationality on h1-b Visa. I applying for jobs in australia and I get anxiety working with people of same nationality as me because they will exploit me 100% 😅

[@thePribs]

This is so true, thank you

[@bobdaniels3692]

If your a hlb the smartest thing to do is to not bank on a greencard. Save alot of money buy stocks sp500 index and buy real estate in a tier 1 city in india. This applies to other countries like korea, etc. If you don't want to buy real estate in home country find a good country to make your homebase. Do this for 10 years and move back to your home country and you will be more well off. You can get a job back in India or start a business. Hlbs south asians or any other country needs to be smart and think in their best interest. Good luck

[@Joshua.Developer]

Calling it many people will stay in their nations and start huge companies. Deepseek just proved that.

[@Joshua.Developer]

Really won't need to come here money is going to go where the creative people are what does FANG even sell. This is why the stocks are taking we are getting a massive hard, very hard fast reset. We will see smaller faster very companies.

[@gauravpagare8838]

China has pretty business friendly environment, so the outcomes are obvious. Can't say about India, if you start a startup, apart from taxes, you will have to pay bribes to local mafia, police, bureaucrats, and also the issues won't be resolved swiftly. Your startup will not survive unless you have connections high up there in the parliament. Remember, india is a 'SUPERPOWER' ......./s

[@donaldjohnson-y6n]

I worked for a big bank that hired them from one of the big 4 Indian companies. They lived 4 or more in a 1 bedroom apartment when I visited them to drop off a gift. What confuses everyone is that the salaries reported to the DOL of what they are paying these guys...is a complete lie. The salary is what they would pay a domestic worker, but is not what the replacement workers are getting and nobody is going to check.

[@shadman19299]

Then you have H1B Indian Manager Micro Managing your life for you to leave the Company to replace you with another H1B…. Its all coming together now! 🎉🎉

[@sasankv9919]

Yeah right, like it’s only the h1b managers that micromanage.

[@Privateuser9999]

Not just big tech Its the worlds largest slavery program

[@kimeiga]

america willfully becoming the land of unchecked capitalism and then getting upset that their companies are trying to source the best talent

[@dhrutube]

My parents sent me to the US without knowing even about the lottery system, and now they want me to complete my degree. While I'm super grateful to be in California, I wish to be relocated by a company to another country which is better in terms of laws and general well-being. I'm okay with working for a few years but seeing how it's basically impossible for Indians to get a green card here, it just does not seem worth it to try to move here permanently anymore.

[@yashpatel261]

Come to canada bro

[@good-tn9sr]

@@yashpatel261no way. your country is absolutely screwed man

[@the_varunrana]

😂😂😂

[@spetz911]

Hello from a UK Skilled worker visa. I’m done with this BS and going to move towards a better future.

[@ALIVE-Company]

Great video Varun! It's great to get the perspective from someone who has worked with a lot of H1B visa workers. As someone who has worked with people on visa before as well, you are so right, they are some of the most hard working people that I have ever met. Thanks for sharing

[@Theodore53]

Bernie is right for most of the time.

[@Brug9009]

I joined a startup where I was the first citizen out of all the engineers. Everyone else was H1B or somewhere in the process of getting a green card minus a few green card holders. At first I thought it was strange but now I get it.

[@preethamrakshithp3522]

Amazing video lol, H1B combined with GC backlog is like a ticking time bomb right now. A recession could trigger it

[@alin-1998]

Thanks for being vocal and honest, I'm an immigrant and studied here (on F-1) and now work in tech (on H1-b) and am treated like a slave everyday

[@ambivertical]

@@alin-1998 Im sorry about your situation...

[@atharvakpatil]

can you elaborate how exactly? im a new masters grad and looking for job. hopefully ill get one, so what are the things that you do that make you feel like a slave? I wanna be mentally prepared

[@rohanutep81]

@@atharvakpatillong working hours

[@kval-w2h]

Don't allow yourself to be treated that way. Understand that it is a simple trade exchange deal between countries. And explain that to others who have a different opinion. They are not doing you any favors. If they mistreat you tell them maybe they should take their businesses out of India.

[@Etcher]

Varun, I love your vids - they always bring a smile to my face (mang). Kudos to you for raising awareness of this H1B psychological chokehold that is used to undermine workers across America. I've worked with lots of H1B visa workers over the years and we've often discussed how trapped people can feel working under the programme particularly the draconian rules around losing your job (either through redundancy or being fired) where you have to schlep back to wherever you came from within 60 days of losing your job. Indentured servitude with a spattering of pay anyone?

[@foysalAminBangla]

80% h1b is occupied by people from a specific country, and when someone from that country goes into management or hiring position they look for h1b workers from home country. Some of the h1b workers do not even have a related degree who comes directly outside of usa, but get recruited and paid less then usual pay. H1b program should be re-designed with fairness.

[@foysalAminBangla]

@ i agree to give more chances to students who graduated from us universities. Infect all h1b visas should be given to usa graduates. There are other visa types like o1 to bring extraordinary employees in USA. H1b is totally abused by consultants and corporate executives to bring cheap slaves inside USA

[@bastetowl3258]

the reason the companies have this program is not because there are no talented americans but because they want to be able to pay workers much less and exploit them more. it’s a cost cutting measure. h1b visas should only be used as a last resort if the company can’t find someone with a highly specialized skill

[@conniewaterman1673]

Indentured servitude. Poor people! This is how billionaires become billionaires. Musk and Ramaswamy for example.😢

[@kval-w2h]

And not to mention all the gaslighting about quality of work and the newly exported scam business that is used to indirectly gaslight all Indians with utter disregard for all the decades long work from pre PC systems to the modern smartphones. This is beyond criminal.

[@Enocan]

Just realized I'm super blessed to be an American Citizen who came here at 3 y/o :)

[@user-wu4ip7mp3z]

Did you forget to mention, all these on-calls are not paid overtime. Not paid at all. That's the criminal part. Side note, I saw a Tesla with license plate "CMONMANG".

[@the_varunrana]

Get out😂😂😂

[@falconheavy595]

The main goal of the H1B program is to decrease American workers' salaries. As foreign workers are willing to work for significantly lower wages, it becomes easier to replace local workers. Local workers are threatened with the possibility of being replaced at any time.

[@protapsen1910]

Really? That simple? Just look at other comments just the next comment!! 🤣🤣

[@MrSatadal]

They go to earn $$ Nothing else matters to them

[@AntiCarCarGuy]

So real. H1-B workers are grinding for a better life and get no respect at all. This was refreshing and informative. Thanks for making this video.

[@bdawgsohawt]

this is both brutal and comedy gold

[@rao521]

I worked with a DBA, who could not go to LAX to pick up his wife. She came to the USA from India for the first time. She had to wait at the airport for more than a couple of hours, because the husband was on a Prod issue call. She gave him an ultimatum to find another job or another wife, because of the crazy hours he was working. Later he moved to the bay area. One of my friends told me about another guy who worked like crazy, and died shortly after getting his greencard, probably in his early 40s. Thanks for making this video

[@mukta4689]

Died? Are you serious? 😮

[@rao521]

@@mukta4689 if you sit in front of the monitors all day with no exercise, and skipping timely meals and not having enough sleep, you will develop a lot of health issues like diabetes, heart problems etc. It wont happen overnight, but it will slowly mess up health. The workload varies from company to company, and department/team to department/team

[@romalondra]

China does not depend much on that Visa it's mainly India because they did not develop their own home companies do that and then no need to be treated like garbage as you say Can you do it ......... otherwise ......... keep complaining Reply

[@manimaarants]

Thank you for putting this out.

[@Drganguli]

That is not true. Many are treated quite well. Only those with shady consultancies are treated badly.

[@Quilt4Joy]

😂 nothing is fair when greed is involved.

[@SummersJourney-d5d]

Honestly, we all make decisions that impact our lives, for the better or for the worse. In my opinion, H1Bs and the employers get a lot from their "agreement." The H1B gets to come to a developed nation, work and enjoy a high standard of living, while the employer gets a productive employee that will go the extra mile, to keep their position.

[@Freecoke6]

stop looking at me with those eyes

[@Johanthegnarler]

Americans will not do this kind of work for that kind of money? Realizing im literally an H1B Visa SWE on call 24/7 a week at a time for the same money lol. Fuck, I'm not crying, you are.

[@kknn523]

h1b issue is that it used to be only the elite of the elite. Now, they also find people worse than the general populace and pay them less. Also, the issue with h1b body shop is basically indentured servitude like the Indian construction workers who also have a similar situation with their body shops.

[@AndreLawas]

Nah H1B's are still VERY hard to get I'll tell you that. There is just a lot more corruption going on especially ehem in the South Asia region.

[@zikos8196]

yeah in the middle east!!

[@kknn523]

@@zikos8196 The US H1b programs also allow Indian body shops which take the money from the Indians and then gives some of the salary to the Indian. The employer and the body shops have control over the h1b because the h1b recipients are desperate to stay in the US. That is why Elon likes Indian h1bs... It's cheap indentured servants, just like Elon's dad's emerald mines.

[@ericariz4058]

The issue isn't necessarily hiring H1B workers, it's when Indian managers exclusively hire individuals from one specific nationality, INDIANS! They don’t prioritize the actual SKILLS candidates provide, as that becomes the last metric they consider. Instead, they focus on whether the candidate is Indian, followed by whether they are from the same region and speak the same language. As the only non-Indian on a team, I can speak to this, I’ve witnessed it happen countless times.

[@mukta4689]

And they exploit the f*** out of their own nationalities. And you will be treated much better 😅 don't worry

[@ansh2771]

yep true. and the same managers then boss the indians around. they dont prefer other ethnicities bc they cant do that shit to a white guy. has nothing to do w indians promoting indians, instead they want to push down their work on the juniors. fwiw, ive noticed the chinese do the same at google.

[@VV-sb1im]

Good point, at the same time india, china ect.. shld also think in a true humanity sense how to provide better lives for such hard working people in their own place.

[@vijaysarathy1220]

H1-B is used in other industries such as traditional engineering, medicine (doctors/nurses) and modeling (melania came here on one). When I was working in the semiconductor industry, everyone was working just as hard regardless of status or ethnicity- white Americans were on call night s/ weekends - some worked 15 hour night shifts. I think all workers have their own merits - Americans put a man on the moon. International workers should be treated better in the program. But at the same time, India needs to keep rebuilding and become a superpower.

[@the_varunrana]

Agree. But re: Moon Landing. Look up Operation Paperclip 😄

[@rameshraghothama8324]

​@@the_varunranaI think you are just Jealous of White Americans 😂. Paperclip or Not the US would still have put men on the moon .

[@eth6869]

My manager (an Indian on H1B himself) at AWS asked me in a 1:1 whether I needed any help with my GC application. This after I was there for a year or so. I said no, I have a GC already. Knowing him now, I suspect his question was to figure out how much he can exploit or push me.

[@lightspeedlion]

Thank you Varun for addressing this. Dint knew you had this corner. Always saw your videos funny ❤.

[@MessiahBoi]

I'm SO glad someone made a video like this from a place of knowing what actually happens. Thank you Varun

[@Quilt4Joy]

Welcome to America 😂

[@Xerophun]

As they say, there's no place like home.

[@burrybondz225]

Well in canada it is straight up wage suppression. With farmhands being called slaves by the UN. The h1b tech issue is light. (I would say that damn near indentured servitude is more like the railroad workers.)

[@AndreLawas]

I'm in Amazon Operations and most of the other managers at my site are on H1B. I lowkey feel bad for them because they are actually overqualified for the job and are highly educated but they are stuck in operations or Amazon in general because of the H1B shit. They all hate their lives I feel so bad.

[@blessedandpeaceful]

I was one of those engineers who came to US via F1 (student), H1B route in 1990s. I worked hard, but it was a lot of fun too. In India I never would have made so much money, I can honestly say. Some sacrifices like staying away from the family, missing weddings of the relatives, weakening of the relations with them with the passage of time etc. were well worth it. But in the end it was all well worth it. When I look what I got back from US, the cost paid looks small. In India, I could only imagine how hard it would have been to prosper like this. At least I am honest enough to admit this. Even now, getting a chance to come here and work is a blessing compared to living in India, even if you don't have any guarantee for a long term citizenship/permanent status. Why ? You can look at this stay as a money making mission, work hard, give your best, save dollars and go back to India in 6 years and retire with the money earned. That's why. And that's assuming you have been either burnt out by working hard or have lost the passion of keeping your skills shiny. If not, you can go back to India and work from there too. Either ways, I won't say that working as a H1B is pathetic.

[@cleitoncamilojr8094]

Slave

[@arunkumaracharya9641]

He was talking about you the whole time, aka a slave with no life! Irony is 99% don’t like to go back unless 60 days end, so no clue what you talking about carry few dollars back home

[@rohanutep81]

Lucky you!!

[@knuthatsgut123]

Money is just a paper. Enjoy life. That is priceless.

[@blessedandpeaceful]

@@knuthatsgut123 That's what I have been doing for the past year or so. Retired early in my 50s with ample money to fund my life style, education of my kids etc. On Indian salary, I would have struggled. Mr. Varun has painted the US side of picture by comparing it to the white Americans, but has not compared to what would have been (or rather is) the case with Indian work environment. When he has first hand experience with Indian working conditions, only then he will appreciate the H1B. India is a place to retire and use the money earned elsewhere, not a place to earn money for the most. Of course if you are a founder of a new company it's different, but for the most salaried employees India isn't worth it.

[@blues1m]

I appreciate this video so much, Varun. Thanks for making it.

[@Colonelguuber]

Great video man!

[@ninamorales358]

Great video Varun!! Very relevant and highly informative, the ties between railroad workers and H1B was spot on. Love this kinda content ❤

[@ashwelldsouza]

Im an intl freshman doing CompE , well idk much about H1B workers but getting an H1B visa is pretty uncertain. As an intl on a stem degree u get like 3 years of OPT if u get a job and within those 3 years your company MIGHT sponsor EB3/EB2 or wait for u get H1B for a couple years and then put u pn the PERM process or they may not sponsor ur green card at all (they arent obligated to)(H1B IS A LOTtery , 65k (for undergrad and grad) 20k (for grad) and like 400-500k entries iirc)

[@alin-1998]

and the recruiter still had the audacity to tell me, "TBH, with you, you have to be so much better than the GC holders or citizens who applied for the same position to land the job because of your visa." and still at the end I was the one who got the offer :))) because no way non-international ppl can do the same job as us

[@siddarthbhagirath5883]

massive W keep it up Varun!

[@OscarMejia-n7e]

cmong mang, you keep it too real

[@Etcher]

This one need to be kept real mang

[@OscarMejia-n7e]

@ 💯

[@Mike-lu1pt]

Proud of you for making such a high quality vid!

[@greanch1234]

Varun please close the tickets asap, thanks. kidding, thanks for the video.

[@cnote91]

This makes me so grateful my goodness

[@rahuljobanputra5448]

Great video Varun! I love that you brought in a much deeper historical context of America's use of Migrant labor.

[@rumi8]

No no not true,we indians highly desired, we lift standards of any western country, look at Canada, we very clever and educated, we are number 1 the bestest superpower, indian CEOS run American companies..not treated like garbage, we are treated like sweet jalebis

[@applepeel1662]

F1 masters student here aiming to get an H1B when i graduate, bleak times. America used to be the land of opportunity and a better life - but things are starting to look grim. I just want to live here and ensure my kids dont have to go through what im going through.

[@rishabhghosh155]

kya video banaya hai bhai, great work

[@the_varunrana]

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[@KaranJanii]

Thank you for this video :)

[@LV-ei1ce]

Good video ! Thanks for having our backs. The 60 day timer is trauma machine. If they remove the 60 day timer and let the folks stay here until end of their visa tenure, slavery will vanish to a great extent. Ultimately the country cap on green card queue is another problem, many of us are just in waitlist for a decade. :( if you let your frustration out they say you are ‘ not entitled ‘ . Such a slap on the face honestly

[@TechnoPandaUnplugged]

You need to zoom in little bit more. I need to see your nostrils

[@the_varunrana]

LOL😂 sometimes when I focus on looking at the camera, I forget to peep the LCD to make sure I’m in frame 😂

[@zikos8196]

h1b is modern form of what british india used to have called(girmitiyas) aka indentured servitude which by defination is not slavery but the corporates literally controls your in and out the difference is just computer cubicles in seattle,silicon valley in place of sugarcane plantations in carribeans or south africa!! but then again if you come from country with per capita income of 3000 usd per year 72000 sounds really lucrative!! a lot of lower middleclass families its ticket to prosperity for few years of servitude!! so keeping your head down and not complaining is what is survival tactic!!

[@rameshraghothama8324]

People on H1 can change jobs.

[@pureum1720]

H1B needs some change. No doubt that workers are exploited and needs to be changed. My Indian and Chinese friends they know about the exploitation but they say it's better than Chinese and Indian companies...In terms of work, it really depends on their skill levels. My CS friend rose up through the ranks quickly because he could get stuff done. So not everyone is doing boring/soul crushing jobs.

[@trent6775]

Maybe the attitude that causes the hiring of H1B workers in the first place is conducive to the mistreatment of those workers, if you are a tech CEO and you say "Americans are too unmotivated and unintelligent" (which is an interesting way of saying "Americans wish to be paid a fair salary, which I do not want to pay, so I hire offshore workers who work longer hours for less since they are desperate"). If you simply view these workers as replaceable economic business units, it is reasonable that they are mistreated and exploited to their absolute limit.

[@kalpakHere]

Forget DNS, TIL that i am one of the backbone of the internet. #danglingCarrot

[@ranjanajha3063]

A brilliant analysis!

[@bpierce2100]

This is the investigative journalism we need

[@debunkingcars2359]

It's a good vid, but not investigative. More of an op-ed style.

[@ambivertical]

@@bpierce2100 yeah def not invest. Journalism but good fact sharing he did.

[@jhrtythree]

absolute best ai images ever

[@the_varunrana]

I try (DALL E tries)

[@DishDetergent898]

I work in tech and I've worked with plenty of H1Bs or similar visas (F or J for new grads). I think most were treated quite well and paid quite well. I think the discussion around the topic is hyperbolic. This is in no way similar to slavery or indentured servitude. People come here knowing full well exactly what theyre signing up for. It is a work visa. I do believe there should be reform and there are obvious issues where theyre treated poorly at certain consultancy companies but saying someone who make $200k/yr is a slave is dumb

[@rameshraghothama8324]

H1B allows Job switching.

[@user-fg4xq7le7r]

Why you guys monopolized this visa? Is there no other nation in the world?

[@rohanutep81]

Unfortunately no

[@rameshraghothama8324]

It's open to all countries, but EU folks are already having it pretty good there. So it's mostly India, China, Philippines and few E Europe countries taking it. Australia/NZ folks have it much better than EU in their countries and can work in US via E3 treaty visa which is exclusive to them. Canadians and Mexicans can use TN1 NAFTA visa exclusive to them.

[@sidsharma0]

Even without an exploitative visa there's plenty to keep an immigrant sweating in the west - inflation, low wages, low job growth, covid-era layoffs, no safety net, cultural/political immigrant backlash to name a few. Some immigrants WILL be no doubt be happier on h1b + stable high income vs dealing with financial/job insecurity in Canada/Australia/EU/home with a stable immigration status. That is not a case for not reforming h1b, but it's one of the reasons why nothing has been done since the program started and why immigrants settle for America and h1b. This is also not a case for any kind of anti-immigration stance. Ultimately economic migration is a win-win-win, the migrant, the origin and the receiving country all are better off.

[@valencappe1352]

Same situation with Mexicans and crops...

[@Romogi]

I really think the world needs UBI and cooperatives.

[@MarcoCuauhtemocMejia]

7:11 “Americans have never liked doing hard things.” Operation Overlord, defeating the natives in a 300 year long war, taming the west, landing a man on the moon. Really? Never bro?

[@the_varunrana]

Lol on operation overlord, we didn’t do that shit alone. On Natives and “taming the west” (🤮), that proves my point exactly. On the moon landing, look up Operation Paperclip 😄

[@Bastillemoteurs]

Get rid of the horrible music and AI generated images and you are gold!

[@the_varunrana]

Horrible music? Do you want brain rot sound effects instead? Sorry 😂

[@Bastillemoteurs]

@@the_varunrana No music.

[@Hariom-s7t9e]

You’re definitely paid by infosys or tcs to make this

[@ambivertical]

Never knew this. Thanks for sharing Sad to know

[@thisguymartin]

If America is dumb. Go to India 🇮🇳

[@ievgenp7329]

You skipped one important point from the story. Why are all those guys end up in such shitty conditions for long time? Because they cannot obtain green cards quickly. Why they cannot? Because their employers don't want to sponsor them, and even when they do, the backlog for Indian citizens is so huge due to the country cap that the whole process takes many years if not decades. This could be fixed by allowing employees apply for GCs themselves instead of waiting for employer sponsorship and removing quotas. But this is not done because those who could do it are not interested, and those who are interested (workers themselves) have zero leverage. All this is no secret at all. The only thing that surprises me is why those Indian guys agree to such shitty conditions if they know them in advance. If you are so desperate to leave India, there are many other countries with much healthier immigration systems. Probably, there is still some part of this equation that I miss.

[@narudgi9509]

Please don't use AI generated pictures, I believe it diminishes the value of your video :(

[@the_varunrana]

Interesting. I find them campy, hilarious, and useful for making points I can’t source footage about otherwise. I’ll be mindful of my usage if you don’t like it!

[@narudgi9509]

@@the_varunrana Haha I can understand your perspective, it's just that it completely lacks story/purpose compared to your acting for example! Everyone uniqueness is valuable and AI pictures technically support the opposite idea so it felt quite contradictory to the topic for me