What does "Cutting-edge digital advertising professionals" mean? The article is very skim about the specifics of what the folks did. The article mentions that

What does "Cutting-edge digital advertising professionals" mean? The article is very skim about the specifics of what the folks did. The article mentions that some tech firms tried to recruit employees at this company, but that's no indicator of if this is the class of employee that companies recruit on H1Bs. There is a wide variance in talent of people on H1Bs too, though this article has a very simplistic view which goes: "we didn't have access to H1Bs, so people were forced to learn and get better" without any understanding of what H1Bs do. Your "cutting-edge digital advertising professional" is not an engineer. Fully agree that the path forward to solving a tech talent shortage in the US is for the US to be internally competitive, but just learning on the job doesn't have the same rigor as pursuing 4 year and/or advanced STEM degrees. Also, this company on LinkedIn has no information. Just 4 employees showing up, i.e. very hard to see if they have people doing engineer caliber work. https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?f_CC=2467546&trk=rr_connectedness https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?f_CC=2467546&trk=rr_conne... Till as such point there is some evidence about the quality of work being done here being comparable to what a software engineer does as, I'm going to call BS on this article.