"With the debate over immigration to the U.S. as fiery as ever, a new analysis suggests that Silicon Valley would be lost without foreign-born technology workers."
hahah ya that's why they're hiring all those indians with fake degrees..they can't find enough americans with fake degrees.
Tech companies all like to complain that "they can't find enough americans". Bullshit. The shortage of american engineering graduates is a problem big tech has actually made themselves - by importing foreign H-1Bs workers.
Young americans can see that big tech likes to replace experienced engineers with H1-B's workers (and in some cases make them train the replacements). And they (correctly) think: "Why should I bother with a difficult-to-get degree like Comp Sci or Electrical Engineering when I can be replaced with a cheap H1B? Just to make the twatter CEO a billionare? No thanks!"
And what big tech really means when they say "we can't find enough americans" is "we can't find enough americans CHEAP enough". They use H-1B workers to keep salaries down. But if engineering salaries rose to what competitive wages should be without imported H-1B workers, just think how many more young americans would get STEM degrees: shortage solved!
Cry me a river, Big Tech. You did this to yourselves.
This is what the writer took out of the stats..
"With the debate over immigration to the U.S. as fiery as ever, a new analysis suggests that Silicon Valley would be lost without foreign-born technology workers."
hahah ya that's why they're hiring all those indians with fake degrees..they can't find enough americans with fake degrees.
Am a hiring manager at a big tech firm.
Tech companies all like to complain that "they can't find enough americans". Bullshit. The shortage of american engineering graduates is a problem big tech has actually made themselves - by importing foreign H-1Bs workers.
Young americans can see that big tech likes to replace experienced engineers with H1-B's workers (and in some cases make them train the replacements). And they (correctly) think: "Why should I bother with a difficult-to-get degree like Comp Sci or Electrical Engineering when I can be replaced with a cheap H1B? Just to make the twatter CEO a billionare? No thanks!"
And what big tech really means when they say "we can't find enough americans" is "we can't find enough americans CHEAP enough". They use H-1B workers to keep salaries down. But if engineering salaries rose to what competitive wages should be without imported H-1B workers, just think how many more young americans would get STEM degrees: shortage solved!
Cry me a river, Big Tech. You did this to yourselves.