$18 million is chump change.
$18 billion would have gotten their attention. Better $180 billion.
If you dug deeper into Silicon Valley you would find a bunch of high tech companies doing the same thing, this has been happening for a long time in the tech industry I saw it happen to a friend of mine working for Burroughs back in the mid-80s
H1B = rip off American workers
If these tech companies are so brilliant why do they hire engineers that get their degrees through cheating and bribery?
I’ve made a pretty good living FIXING these barely educated and very inexperienced HIB visa holders. I swear they are giving away comp sci degrees with 3 cereal box tops.
Just because someone learned how to code (minimally) does not mean they can write GOOD code.
And bad code means you pay 3 times. Once to have it written (poorly), a second time to hire some more competent workers to try to figure out what it does, and then a 3rd time to fix or re-write it.
I’ve told many a client that they were not hiring me to lie to them. I could spend 9 months trying to figure it out and then fix it, or I could spend 3 months doing it over.
I fought long and hard my last 17 years of my 42 year IT career. Lost some and won some and now retired with SS, RRRA and state pension.
Never give up!
IBM did the same thing in Boulder, Co. 1200 over the age of 55. If you didn’t sign a contract that you wouldn’t sue you didn’t get your severance.
Tech workers: Keep voting liberal it is working great !
All they need to do to recover the $18 million is to pack their PCs with even more bloatware.
I am not a tech guy.
However, I have been a software, chip, and computer stock investor for 50 years.
When I study the Artificial Intelligence (AI) issue, the first thing I see is a technology that can analyze trillions of lines of computer code and find the fastest and most efficient path between Point A and Point B.
I am thinking that the market demand for software engineers is going to slowly but steadily decline for the next 10 years.
Carly Fiorina came up with this back around 2000.
You could train your replacement and get 6 month pay or be terminated NOW.
I know this as I had several friend who had the virtual gun put to their head.
This is NO secret in Silicon Valley.
And the GOP-e tried to get this Witch on the ticket twice.