Not 996, but some of the h1bs from India go through something similar 5 days a week. Many of them have to attend 'offshore calls' with the team in India which usually starts around 10 pm and goes till midnight, in…
>Amazon, for example, saw a denial rate of 17% on 228 H-1B applications for continuing employment decided during the first quarter of FY 2019, noted the NFAP analysis. I thought USCIS was only after Indian companies. I…
> Some people, initially excited by the convenience of the sharing economy, may have now experienced the anxieties and pitfalls of navigating the rating system, Belk said. This is exactly why I hesitate to use Uber or…
I did. I threw away everything and came back to India within the last 6 months. I was in US for 6.5 years working for an Indian company. My employer filed for my green card and it got denied in the first step (see 1…
I am an Indian. When I was working in Indian IT, I used to think that Indian managers were the worst. Then I went to US and worked with some US managers. Two of my worst experiences in my career were due to US managers.…
One more point I forgot to add. They delayed my green card till the last moment. I am not saying I am entitled to it, but they should tell me if they won't do it. I ask my manager and he would say we will start the…
Ex Indian h1b here. Here are some of the things I experienced that finally ended up with me throwing away everything and come back to India. 1. Was working on a project without issues. Ex manager forced me to go back to…
My employer wanted us to pay upfront and then claim. I was an Indian h1b. One time, they forced me to relocate to another state even though I didn't want to. "I will snip you" was my ex-manager's words when I refused.…
I have my Firefox set to clear cookies on exit, with NoScript and PrivacyBadger addons. Also has ad/tracking blocking at router. Not sure if any of these can trigger the above behavior. One thing to point out is I was…
Another one is body sensors. I disabled body sensor permission for play services. Whenever I am using Google Maps, it would complain about the permission every few minutes. Thankfully, found later an option to disable…
I came to the same conclusion 2 weeks ago. Nowadays, I have to solve the captcha 15-20 times before it lets me in. So I have started purposefully making wrong answers-road instead of car, sky instead of cross walks etc.…
I would like to bring up something that happened to someone I know during WhatsApp call. Person A was in US and person B in India and were audio calling through Whastapp on something work related. Person A starts…
BestBuy's shipping was far better than Amazon's in my experience. BestBuy always used to offer 2 day shipping for me and sometimes even deliver in a day for the same price as Amazon. In the case of Amazon, from 2012 to…
Many Indian grocery stores and some Indian restaurants in US carry a board that says minimum $10 or $20 purchase required for credit card. I guess below that amount, they don't make profit after the credit card fees.…
I have been thinking about our conversation here and wanted to add something more in case that's what you were wondering about. Do I regret coming back? Yes, I do on some days, especially when I go to Indian stores…
Don't get me wrong, but I feel the /r/sysadmin folks are extremely pissed off at Indians, probably because of all the outsourcing. I find it amusing that they blame it on shitty coding by Indians whenever there is a…
I don't think Western companies really outsource important stuff to India. Its mostly brain dead work. Some of us call ourselves cyber coolies if we are working for the outsourcing companies. American companies are…
Its been about 2 months since I came back. I haven't started looking for a job yet. I haven't even started preparing for interviews. Feeling very lazy. Weirdly, I am not even that worried. As for money, I have a good…
I assume you wanted to know about the RFE. Please see me other comments on what type of questions where in the RFE and what happened to other colleagues who got RFE. As for time line, my h1b was in premium. Got RFE…
Between June 2017 and July 2018, 5 of my colleagues got RFE for extension. They all got approved. The denial stories I heard were all for people who had more than one employer under them (some people end up in…
As deanmoriarty mentioned, this "request for evidence" is issued by USCIS when we (employer) apply for a visa or an extension. In the last 1 year, RFE was more or less certain if one is working for an Indian employer. I…
The RFE had the below questions (don't remember exact wording): Q1: H1B is for speciality occupation, for which a bachelors degree is a minimum requirement. Justify how your current position require a bachelors degree.…
I had quite a few of my Indian friends who did MS in US, joined an Indian company, and jumped ship to start ups within 1-2 years.
Another Indian with a similar mindset (not wanting to be on the h1b leash until I may or may not get the green card in another 10-20-30 years). Lived in US for 6 years. Had my i140 approved a few months ago and got H1B…
I worked for the US counter part of an Indian company in Illinois for a couple of years. We used to have town hall meetings every quarter. On 2 such meetings, I heard two separate American employees questioning the…
Not 996, but some of the h1bs from India go through something similar 5 days a week. Many of them have to attend 'offshore calls' with the team in India which usually starts around 10 pm and goes till midnight, in…
>Amazon, for example, saw a denial rate of 17% on 228 H-1B applications for continuing employment decided during the first quarter of FY 2019, noted the NFAP analysis. I thought USCIS was only after Indian companies. I…
> Some people, initially excited by the convenience of the sharing economy, may have now experienced the anxieties and pitfalls of navigating the rating system, Belk said. This is exactly why I hesitate to use Uber or…
I did. I threw away everything and came back to India within the last 6 months. I was in US for 6.5 years working for an Indian company. My employer filed for my green card and it got denied in the first step (see 1…
I am an Indian. When I was working in Indian IT, I used to think that Indian managers were the worst. Then I went to US and worked with some US managers. Two of my worst experiences in my career were due to US managers.…
One more point I forgot to add. They delayed my green card till the last moment. I am not saying I am entitled to it, but they should tell me if they won't do it. I ask my manager and he would say we will start the…
Ex Indian h1b here. Here are some of the things I experienced that finally ended up with me throwing away everything and come back to India. 1. Was working on a project without issues. Ex manager forced me to go back to…
My employer wanted us to pay upfront and then claim. I was an Indian h1b. One time, they forced me to relocate to another state even though I didn't want to. "I will snip you" was my ex-manager's words when I refused.…
I have my Firefox set to clear cookies on exit, with NoScript and PrivacyBadger addons. Also has ad/tracking blocking at router. Not sure if any of these can trigger the above behavior. One thing to point out is I was…
Another one is body sensors. I disabled body sensor permission for play services. Whenever I am using Google Maps, it would complain about the permission every few minutes. Thankfully, found later an option to disable…
I came to the same conclusion 2 weeks ago. Nowadays, I have to solve the captcha 15-20 times before it lets me in. So I have started purposefully making wrong answers-road instead of car, sky instead of cross walks etc.…
I would like to bring up something that happened to someone I know during WhatsApp call. Person A was in US and person B in India and were audio calling through Whastapp on something work related. Person A starts…
BestBuy's shipping was far better than Amazon's in my experience. BestBuy always used to offer 2 day shipping for me and sometimes even deliver in a day for the same price as Amazon. In the case of Amazon, from 2012 to…
Many Indian grocery stores and some Indian restaurants in US carry a board that says minimum $10 or $20 purchase required for credit card. I guess below that amount, they don't make profit after the credit card fees.…
I have been thinking about our conversation here and wanted to add something more in case that's what you were wondering about. Do I regret coming back? Yes, I do on some days, especially when I go to Indian stores…
Don't get me wrong, but I feel the /r/sysadmin folks are extremely pissed off at Indians, probably because of all the outsourcing. I find it amusing that they blame it on shitty coding by Indians whenever there is a…
I don't think Western companies really outsource important stuff to India. Its mostly brain dead work. Some of us call ourselves cyber coolies if we are working for the outsourcing companies. American companies are…
Its been about 2 months since I came back. I haven't started looking for a job yet. I haven't even started preparing for interviews. Feeling very lazy. Weirdly, I am not even that worried. As for money, I have a good…
I assume you wanted to know about the RFE. Please see me other comments on what type of questions where in the RFE and what happened to other colleagues who got RFE. As for time line, my h1b was in premium. Got RFE…
Between June 2017 and July 2018, 5 of my colleagues got RFE for extension. They all got approved. The denial stories I heard were all for people who had more than one employer under them (some people end up in…
As deanmoriarty mentioned, this "request for evidence" is issued by USCIS when we (employer) apply for a visa or an extension. In the last 1 year, RFE was more or less certain if one is working for an Indian employer. I…
The RFE had the below questions (don't remember exact wording): Q1: H1B is for speciality occupation, for which a bachelors degree is a minimum requirement. Justify how your current position require a bachelors degree.…
I had quite a few of my Indian friends who did MS in US, joined an Indian company, and jumped ship to start ups within 1-2 years.
Another Indian with a similar mindset (not wanting to be on the h1b leash until I may or may not get the green card in another 10-20-30 years). Lived in US for 6 years. Had my i140 approved a few months ago and got H1B…
I worked for the US counter part of an Indian company in Illinois for a couple of years. We used to have town hall meetings every quarter. On 2 such meetings, I heard two separate American employees questioning the…