Agree totally, that’s another reason all these stupid claims about tech worker shortages in the US are so hollow, back when I was growing up, it was never expected that someone would have 100% of the skills down for a new position, you always learned on the job and some on the job training was a given. Now so many companies deliberately put up postings requiring 30 years of experience and deep knowledge of five computer languages for an entry level position, knowing that not one person on earth could actually fulfill this let alone for entry level. So then they whine and complain demanding more h1b and other cheap labor visas to hire foreigners at a fraction of American salaries.
In reality there is no shortage of qualified Americans to work these jobs, and in some cases like Disney and Facebook, qualified Americans already doing the job are laid off while dirt cheap Indians are brought in to replace them. So India displaces its own over-population, incompetence and corruption on US workers.
And all the while, our supposedly elected officials fail to bring up the point that, in addition to the many qualified Americans who can do these jobs from Day 1, there are millions more who can quickly adapt with American ingenuity and hard work to do them after a short period of on the job training, which used to be standard.
In decades of doing business, even considering my best employees, I don’t think there’s been a single hire who had everything down about the business from Day One, even those with lots of experience. There are too many tiny details a person has to master. So we build into hour hiring the reality that even the best new hires will need a few months, sometimes a couple years of training and learning to really have everything down.
My best ever hire was some kid fresh out of college, not the kind doing dumb affirmative action majors but studied something concrete, who nevertheless was sweating lead his first few weeks because even he admitted the actual business was very different form what he learned at school. But we kept at it and trained him instead of going for a cheaper hire from India. He turned out to be one of our best recruits and alone made tens of millions in revenue for us over many years with the company. That’s what these fools scraping the barrel-bottom for cheap Indian labor will never understand.