[SecondAmendment]

> Pseudo-qualified H-1B workers are destroying the data infrastructures of many private companies, as well, but the consequences are less publicly visible.

Bingo !

Here is the dirty secret of software development, the vast majority of developers do not have the skills and experience to do their job, and throwing more bodies at the problem only makes things worse.

This strategy wastes more money than hiring an handful of well qualified engineers to do the work, 99 percent of the people we currently import with H1-B visas are not qualified for the jobs they take from Americans...

[rarestia]

Here is the dirty secret of software development, the vast majority of developers do not have the skills and experience to do their job, and throwing more bodies at the problem only makes things worse.

Infrastructure engineering is another problem. Many don't understand the concepts of elastic computing, load balancing, clustering, or even disaster recovery. They're building massive web solutions on Hadoop with MongoDB and selling it as a turnkey solution, bringing in an army of programmers to "develop" the app, then leaving behind a steaming pile that responds well to synthetic transactions but can't react fast enough to surge demands.