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Except it's not true that the US education system isn't producing enough educated prospective software engineers, the deficiency is entirely people at the highe

Except it's not true that the US education system isn't producing enough educated prospective software engineers, the deficiency is entirely people at the higher levels. The predicted job growth by the BLS over the next ten years is very close if not equal to the number of people getting bachelor's degree in computer science. This doesn't include boot camp graduates or people who are returning to get a master's, nor does it count the many people in related fields who go on to become software developers. While certainly some of these graduates are immigrants themselves, it's rather unlikely that the 10s of thousands of H1Bs that come in every year are needed for anything but to reduce labor costs (although it's known that reducing labor costs does make American industry more competitive at large).

mbrumlow 8y ago
> Except it's not true that the US education system isn't producing enough educated prospective software engineers. Says who? The same people pushing for H1B? We all know how this works. They tailor a job description that only could be met by a H1B. Any native interviewed is either slotted not under qualified or over qualified. Even if you still want to argue that the solution is not more H1B, its less H1B. You force the companies to dump money into the local schooling systems to ensure they are producing the workers they need. Allowing them to game the system and hire H1B means they have no incentive to ensure our school systems are producing the workers they will need.