Apple still depends on traditional American engineers, and is slowly losing them

Post by marcoseliziario » Tue, May 05, 2020, 1:13 PM UTC

api wrote: post #3

kootling wrote: post #2

Main point of the article (quoted): > In 2017, Tim Cook came as close as he ever has to publicly addressing the issue. "In the US," he said, "you could have a meeting of tooling engineers, and I'm not sure you could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields." One possible reason for this is that US education is generally broad compared to other countries. No one in America majors in "tool engin…

Isn't there an obvious reason? The US outsourced everything physical to other countries. You can fill stadiums in the US with finance, marketing, software, and business experts.

Heck, you could probably fill all the major cities in the US just with marketing people.

Post by aspenmayer » Sat, May 09, 2020, 6:44 AM UTC

closeparen wrote: post #21

IlyaMoroshkin wrote: post #5

The US needs to improve its immigration system so that it can hire these smart engineers, from places like Europe in particular. Right now, the current H1B system is totally dominated by Indians, who make up 70% of the intake. The scheme seems designed to undercut American salaries, rather than enhance American companies with highly skilled workers. The scheme should be redesigned with a higher minimum salary, and a…

You're missing the very important concept of soft power. We don't need to defeat our enemies using superior proprietary knowledge. Instead we export our cultural memes to them until they're no longer motivated to be enemies. We get far more influence and respect as the destination for international students the world over, than we do as the owner of an aircraft carrier. They have to put up walls to keep Americanism o…

You’re telling me it was the carrot and the stick this whole time? Genius and simple. Sounds like Kissinger.

Re: Apple still depends on traditional American engineers, and is slowly losing them

Re: Apple still depends on traditional American engineers, and is slowly losing them