How about increasing your wages and expaning in more cities aholes.
MS should put a bunch of scholarships out there, and then maybe more graduates will appear.
Microsoft is lying its a** off when it says it can’t fill positions with Americans. Filling a position with an H1B employee allows a company to trap an employee in the position while and until all H1B conditions are met. I’ve seen many employees get stuck in bad situations in this condition. My company does this intentionally also.
There are enough Americans easily available to do these jobs. The problem from the company’s perspective is that American’s won’t take the crap that comes along with the position, the crap being that you’re competing with slave labor companies in China that drive you out of the market.
I do not often propose areas in which the federal government should become more active, but I think we might consider taking federal funds for college loans (do we need more Women’s Studies majors?) and shift that money over to corporate subsidies for companies that bring back On The Job training. You don’t need H1-Bs and not everyone needs a college degree. Just hire some eighteen-year-olds, and teach them a trade.
$10,000?
How about 1/2 of the salary over 7 year green card period in escrow? If Green card isn’t awarded, escrow gets forfeited.
Bringing people in to do work that Americans won’t do is a big mistake.
Uhuh.
How’come the Billy and Milly Gates Foundation has done such a crappy job of elevating the qualifications of American graduates?
Or is it just that H1B imports with their feet dangling over the caste system back home make for better, more obedient, McTech$laves?
What happened to Microshaft outsourcing its brainpower from Pashtukistan?
Wow, with more and more options everyday in computers. Why buy Microsoft products?
Their the #3 IT company now (in size) behind Apple and Google. They will never catch up.
Seems like the saying today is “American’s need not apply” with corporate interest and their connection to our Outstanding Leader.
How about a boycott of Microsoft and their crappy products? Then they wouldn’t need any more workers.
The H-1B program is the biggest employment fraud ever perpetuated by corporations and it has decimated the IT industry.
It wasn’t that long ago we were telling Americans that manufacturing was dead, get a high tech degree and go to work in the new services economy.
Now with 8% unemployment businesses can’t find folks to do manufacturing or technology? I call BS.
And corporations wonder why young folks aren’t choosing IT careers...
One of the issues here is that Americans with IT skills created their own kingdoms within companies in the 1990s.
Those IT managers mostly resisted moving forward and resisted streamlining their operations as technology improved.
Therefore, many non-IT executives still have a bad taste in their mouths for American IT workers who constantly threatened management with disaster if they did not continue to comply with the IT manager wishes.
IT salaries shot up and many have resisted the normalization as more and more students saw the lucrative opportunity at many corporations.
Bottom line: there is blame on both sides.
They JUST LAID OFF about 2000 here in Puget Sound Region not two weeks ago. They moved a bunch of jobs to China at the same time, about 2800 or so.
They then announced they hired people to the tune of 800.
This is nothing but patent bull sh!t. This is what gives corporations bad reputations.
Why does all the whining and crying about finding qualified tech employees always seem to come from Microsoft? Their success has been due to being at the right place at the right time, marketing, and strategy. Their technology is sloppy and mediocre at best.
It doesn't just affect Microsoft employees, it hits the entire tech industry.
FUBG.
And for the record, I know that Bill Gates no longer runs the company but he did this crap in the 1990s and has the balls to say that I'M not paying enough in taxes. He also has come out in FAVOR of death panels.
Screw Million Dollar Marxists.
If you cannot find Americans to work....you are Anti-American. So tired of this Anti-American horse crap
We do not need H1-B Visa Amnesty....much less any other form of Amnesty