As Tech Giant Calls For More Foreign Workers, Senate Hears of Displaced Americans

Townhall.com ^ | March 24, 2015 | Byron York

[central_va]

As a FYI Ted Cruz is in favor of increasing by a factor of five the number of HB1 visas a year. I will not be supporting Ted Cruz when he is threatneing my job and wages.

Cruz does not excite me, I will not send him money and will not vote for him unless he drops the H-1b visa increase, and he makes me believe him.

[from occupied ga]

So what was the salary being offered?

$100k plus or minus $5k

[from occupied ga]

I can tell you that I interviewed some Indians and they didn’t do as well as the two non-Indians that I hired, but they did better than the majority of the Americans who applied.

[from occupied ga]

You could have hired me at 1/100000000th the cost.

OK, what do you do about quasi complete separation, and do you do the (p,d,or q) first? (no cheating and looking it up)

[9YearLurker]

No, techies in India have been getting close to double-digit raises, on average, for years. Sure, you can still hire 3 to 4 or 5 to 1 there, but the ratio’s not nearly as good for H1-B types here in the US.

Still, it’s a big savings, so hard to fight.

[from occupied ga]

It was IT to IT.

My rant was about the general quality of job applicants for technical positions and the paucity of well qualified Americans to fill them based on my hiring experiences in the last year. I'm not saying that offshore operations are happening more and more. They are, but I had a hard time finding people that could do the job and didn't speak with an accent.

[Democrat_media]

Americans need jobs.this is ridiculous for any politician to want to bring in more foreign workers. If Cruz is for bringing in more foreign workers then I am against Cruz. I agree with you and the original poster.

Walker is better anyway and has achieved results as governor.

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“As a FYI Ted Cruz is in favor of increasing by a factor of five the number of HB1 visas a year. I will not be supporting Ted Cruz when he is threatening my job and wages.

[Democrat_media]

Americans need jobs.this is ridiculous for any politician to want to bring in more foreign workers. If Cruz is for bringing in more foreign workers then I am against Cruz. I agree with you and the original poster.

Walker is better anyway and has achieved results as governor.

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“As a FYI Ted Cruz is in favor of increasing by a factor of five the number of HB1 visas a year. I will not be supporting Ted Cruz when he is threatening my job and wages.

[Straight Vermonter]

In many respects you are correct, however there are hundreds of thousands of American workers being displaced not because they are disqualified. It is because of cheap labor.

If it was really about a huge demand with a tight supply of talent then the salary for these jobs should have gone through the roof.

[servantboy777]

I work with many Indian folks. I actually like’em. Their smart, productive, personable, most are very humble.

But I’ve had a scotch or two with a few of’em. They’ll tell ya what the skinny is.

Corporations are getting BS, Masters, PHD’s for less than that of American workers. I don’t blame the Indians for wanting to come and work. Heck, I’d do the same if I were in a country that’s as crowded as a bee hive.

My issue is America/American workers, if qualified should come first. No other country in the world would put foreigners ahead of their own citizens.

[Lazamataz]

I’m not sure about that — that’s math, not IT — but tell me why the non-FIPS-compliant encryption succeeds on Server 2008 and 2003, but not Server 2012, and what can I do about it? Also, my 24/265 application seems to be getting invalid view- and session-states, perhaps you can offer a solution? Also, why is my Lambda expression not hooking into my Linq-2-Sql? Finally, how can I get through-the-firewall direct outside access to SSRS servers with bulletproof security?*

* I actually have all those answers. Just showing off. :)

[from occupied ga]

Hey good buddy you offered to work for me not the other way around.

[Lazamataz]

Well, I am at the tech level where I can hire my employer. I interview companies, not the other way around. :)

[from occupied ga]

Actually I have an answer to the first one without looking it up - upgrade to FIPS compliant encryption on Server 2012 (not sure it’s the RIGHT answer, but it’s an answer)

[from occupied ga]

Well, I am at the tech level where I can hire my employer.

Let me know how you do that.

[Lazamataz]

Actually, kinda-right, but backwards. Downgrade if you want to run non-FIPS on 2012, 2012 is out-of-box configured for FIPS.

[Lazamataz]

"Well, I am at the tech level where I can hire my employer."

Let me know how you do that.

Be top of your profession. Tech-test at the top 0.1% on every tech test you take. When they give you an hour to complete a development problem on a blank solution, complete it in a half-hour and spend the next 30 minutes adding error checking and web-security.

[Mr. Jeeves]

We have gone through a number of H1B’s at work. They are often much lower quality than American born engineers or coders, but they work for cheap. Over all, the quality impact is detrimental to the bottom line, but for the quarterly bonus it looks great.

Your company is telling you - quite loudly - what they really think of your profession. They may need some variant of what you do in the short term, but they resent the hell out of actually having to pay anyone to do it.

[from occupied ga]

Be top of your profession

Already there, but no tech tests for what I do. (make other people do the work :-)

[Lazamataz]

With my humble nature, I'd come in there and take over, and you'd never even notice. I'm that good. In fact, I wrote a book, called HUMILITY -- AND BEYOND! It is an autographed, 12 volume set.

This is what I do every morning