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If there's not a shortage of skilled engineers, then why is Google paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars a year? While it's true that the industry has
by morgante 10y ago
If there's not a shortage of skilled engineers, then why is Google paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars a year? While it's true that the industry has a bit of myopia and tends to focus on a specific subset of engineers as "skilled," there is absolutely a huge shortage of them and massive competition to hire them.
- throwawaydbfif 10y agoGoogle is one of the few companies hiring H1B's for their true purpose. If you look at where most of these visas are going it's clear that a large majority are low quality jobs. It's a disservice to the brilliant visa holders I know as well as US citizens. it's extremely hard for them to get a job at a good company because so many of the visas are getting soaked up by those abusing the system. If there was a huge engineer shortage you would see companies step in to provide developer training problems. This is clearly not happening.
- warbaker 10y agoWhat? That is happening.
- morgante 10y agoI'm not saying the H1B system isn't abused. It absolutely is, and should be reformed. What I'm disputing is this notion that there's no shortage of qualified developers. There absolutely is—that's why you see substantial salary growth for senior engineers. What exactly do you think bootcamps are? They're outsourced developer training programs whose entire business model depends on the high tech salaries.
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