Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

If you want a good job in tech, go look at Walmart’s job board in the coming weeks. They literally have thousands of Indians doing all kinds of jobs that could easily be done by Americans. I liked my time there, and there’s lots of great people, but it felt very clear that the system was being abused.

I have to say, when one thinks of jobs available at Walmart, tech doesn't exactly come to mind first.

As of 2025, Wal-Mart's main corporate structure has ~2500 H-1B Visa Holders, $141k median, which allegedly no citizens can fulfill.

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=wal-mart+associates+inc&jo...

Maybe it’s true they can’t find citizens:

- at that price - in the Bay Area

But certainly they don’t have grounds to say they can’t find citizens to write JS or make apps.

My understanding is the vast majority of Wal-Mart corporate employees are based in Arkansas.

It used to be more spread out with a strong valley presence, but over the past couple years they've been force reloing people to Arkansas. It really started to ramp up at about the time I left