this is roughly consistent with what I know, that India engineers took nearly half of all H1Bs, while its major peer China is taking less than 10%.
I could never figure out what's going on to make such a big gap, I would think each takes roughly 15~20% makes more sense.
One theory is that India IT giants are applying for lots of H1Bs then filling them when they're approved, they know the system too well. Meanwhile the Chinese IT workers/students don't have those group-effort.
Also India managers like to hire Indians, while Chinese does the opposite, over time that also make a big difference.
I work at Microsoft and the number of Indians there seems disproportionate to me. I too wonder why so many of them come to the US. Maybe IT education in India is really strong?
Two funny things I observe regularly:
1) Sometimes I take an MS shuttle to work. The shuttle is full, and I'm the only non-Indian in it.
2) Sometimes I'm in my building's lobby and when I look around, I'm the only (or one of 2-3 people) non-Indian there.
I pity those guys because they have to wait for 10+ years to get their Green Cards, even if they're EB-2.
More like systemic visa sponsorship fraud for reasons of cost saving. The visa candidates are often as not frauds as well: http://www.dawn.com/news/1080040
Indian IT community is much more entrenched in the US market. If a Chinese engineer wants to find H1-B work, he will most likely have to go at it by himself, and you know how hard that is.
Language is another barrier, while Chinese engineers most likely read English, few speak fluently.
Lastly, this is subjective, finding work in China is easy for good engineers. They also enjoy upper middle class pay AND social status. So while moving to the States means higher salary, it does not necessarily translate to better life.
In general the culture in China encourages individuals to be its best and care less on teamwork/group-leadership. It's slowly changing but this will take some time.
I could never figure out what's going on to make such a big gap, I would think each takes roughly 15~20% makes more sense.
One theory is that India IT giants are applying for lots of H1Bs then filling them when they're approved, they know the system too well. Meanwhile the Chinese IT workers/students don't have those group-effort.
Also India managers like to hire Indians, while Chinese does the opposite, over time that also make a big difference.
No bias, just curious here. Nice work indeed.