Good. About time
We have absolutely no lack of programmers in the US.
>>I’m sure they will be able to find Americans capable of doing a lot of these jobs. if not, our education system needs to be seriously overhauled. It needs to be anyway. <<
The one group of people on the planet that should NOT be allowed to code are Indians (call center not casino).
I worked with their crap for nearly 20 years and it is garbage. Inelegant, unsustainable, badly-written, unintelligible, Godonlyknowshowitruns, GARBAGE.
The fact this crap won’t be slung as much is a gift to unsuspecting American institutions who don’t even KNOW the timebombs they hired these people to create.
Long overdue.
When Google or Microsoft say that they can't find enough Americans at their average wage of $120 or 150K for H1Bs, they might actually be telling the truth. The problem occurs at the 65K level, where American Master's and Ph.D students would be entering the workforce. It's hard to compete against people who are pretty much forced to work 70 or more hours a week to avoid deportation, and it's hard to get promoted in a shop full of Indians or Chinese, who usually favor their countrymen. My son went through this for a couple of years at a computational sweatshop, and I believe him.
He's gone to a better place now, a startup that values his skills.
BS - they want cheap labor to exploit from people they can cut loose at anytime. It's a joke.
I agree completely.
America needs to start supporting American workers.
Big time.
I guess Venkat’s “Six-Week Java Academy” in Mumbai, conveniently located right above the dosa joint, is in trouble...
Precisely, my good FRiend.
Perhaps a few unemployed millennials might now find a useful direction?
I think America needs as many good coders as it can get. Its almost a national security issue. The more coders America has, the more high tech businesses will be American. Where it falls apart is when they are not truly high quality programmers. There are lots of Indian consulting companies who hold H1-B employees hostage. Often they are lab workers or QA (quality testers) who are not nearly as skilled. But they are cheap and because they are consultants, a company can get rid of them easily.
Trump should make the H1-B just for the best programmers and Engineers or highly skilled. And H1-Bs should not be for foreign companies that bring over employees for the purpose of low wage substitutes. H1-B should be for American companies that want to hire full time highly skilled employees at full American wages. Not sweat shop consultants.
All you people here and in the media completely overlook the fact that a huge and separate crime of H1-B is that thousands of people are here working in the US on these Visas that are in jobs that are not really all that technical.
I’m a senior SAP functional analyst and there are many functional analysts here in this country on H1-B and every one of them could have been filled by Americans but aren’t due mainly to driving down wages.
You have to remember that the program is not just terribly corrupt and destructive to Americans, but in several different ways.
There are a lot of Americans available and able. The people who didn’t fulfill any affirmative action quota.