Comment by bsder

> but only giving H1-Bs to the highest paying reqs which need them starves all of the other reqs of any possible candidates.

Then they need to pay better?

There are not 85,000 quant PhDs jobs paying a megabuck+ in spite of what many vocal people claim (and if they really wanted someone at those prices--they're more likely to just open a satellite site wherever the candidate already is and avoid the whole immigration issue). Any decent engineering salary would almost certainly qualify.

And if you can't qualify for an H1-B because the engineering salary isn't high enough, then I don't have much sympathy.