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This need to bend the argument back to the initial English colonization of America is stupid. These mediocre Indian IT drones are not putting everything they own in a boat and wash…

> Does the US have the required people, in terms of numbers and skills? For 30 years, IT managers at blue chip US corporations have exploited the H1-B visa program by saying, "No,"…

> If you have that kind of team, budget or problem that deserves those, then more power to you. This is the operative issue, and it drives me crazy. Companies that can afford to de…

I work for a Fortune 250 that is literally withering on the vine because they chose to focus on DEI before it was even a publicly-recognized thing. A VP of HR once told a former bo…

> This is what happens when you hire the same kinds of people to write the software for your car that you've hired for 25 years to write the terrible internal applications inside t…

Bologna. I've seen monstrous tech debt all over my Fortune 250, and it's pushing us further and further away from competitiveness and profitability. And it's not just the approach …

> At the same time, if a program There's no "if" here.

I work for a company that's about 30th in terms of H1B's. All around me, I see degreed engineers -- many with their Masters -- doing clerical work that a sharp high-school graduate…

> They also come with a minimum salary requirement, which for most tech companies would start at $150,000. While I understand that my company is cheating the system, this particula…

A lot of people are bemoaning this move from the viewpoint in the Valley. I work for an old-school Fortune 250 which is a top-30 H-1B holder. They strategically employ thousands of…

> The problem is people design these things without any sort of actual testing in actual conditions where the software is supposed to be used. I’ll do YOU one better. I work in an …

I suppose someone would say that I could have been more diplomatic, but someone needed to voice a differing opinion. Unfortunately, there was just no way -- diplomatically or other…

I got hired at a Fortune 250 to rewrite a system, from the ground up, that had been running for 5 years. I rewrote it in about a year and a half. Huge success; 1000 happy users. Wh…

I wish it were as simple as "incompetence." There's a director-level IT manager where I work which has made my personal job a hassle for years. There's a follow-on business process…

> Let's be real, males using positions of power to obtain sex isn't exactly a US-only problem, it's fundamental hardwiring of virtually every primate species I'm sorry, but did you…

> Now, what happens if you kill the H1B? Companies all start paying the premium for these most-sought-after and most-specialized technologists, as they should , which then causes m…

Alright, my turn for anecdata, since I am having this... "discussion" right now. About 3 years ago, I was hired to write a program to partially automate an incredibly complicated e…

In the words in Inigo, "No, there is too much. Let me sum up." By reason of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection clause, all manner of discrimination has been made illegal.…

I believe both of my comments make it evident that I'm perfectly clear on this. In fact, I don't see how it would be possible to argue what I WAS saying without understanding this.…

I believe I specifically said that I understand my free speech has a cost. Now, I don't know if you'll get this, since my original comment seems hidden or shadowbanned from the mai…

I know my personal views about sexuality and proclivity, expressed on my personal web site, cost me at least one possible job, and maybe a couple others as well, over the years. If…

Where I work, they're filling roles of what would have been called an engineering clerk, back in the old days. Jobs for which a BS is an over-qualification. The visa holders are va…