I made a decision about 5 years ago not to attempt to go into computer information systems field because of these people. It appears American business and/or our government are intentionally trying to dominate the field with these people and to heck with locals.
“It appears American business and/or our government are intentionally trying to dominate the field with these people and to heck with locals.”
Absolutely; when a company sponsors an imported Asian coolie (from India, Red China, wherever), they can make them work all kinds of hours that no American would tolerate for those wages (and the coolie only tolerates until his indentured servitude is over - at which point the companies simply import more). Gill Gates, while questioning from one side of his mouth why American kids don’t go to school for computers anymore, fights with our government (under the threat of moving to Vancouver or India itself) to allow him to keep bringing more in (therefore driving down the salaries of the Americans left in the field even further).
You make an excellent point.
I live in the heart of Microsoft country, and at least a third of their programmers are foreign born.
They are smart people, often friendly, and hard workers.
But they are not exceptional in any way.
The Indians compete directly against recent American graduates and older workers, and they absolutely drive down wages and benefits.
Strangely, whenever Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer speak at UWashington, they attract SRO crowds of whooping and cheering youngsters who treat them like heroes.