[wakawaka28]

>I applied to a similar position locally this year. I far exceed their requirements and experience and I got rejected at the application stage.

Could be "This one is overqualified, we can't pay that much" or "He doesn't have experience in the exact thing we need." Or just that they want a qualified applicant but they've got lots of options.

[ponow]

But then the narrative of "there aren't enough qualified people" collapses, and H1-Bs unjustified.

[wakawaka28]

I thought that the original comment was about a company that could not fill with H1-Bs yet they didn't contact him either. There are many reasons that he might not be contacted. I think there are plenty of US programmers for jobs that require only US persons. At least, my experience with those jobs has been that being basically qualified is insufficient to get much interest. They're looking for other things, like very particular experience, salary range, security clearance, demographic characteristics, etc.

[lazide]

Then they’d also have to pay more and not have someone they could put under their thumb.