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> Are these junior engineers who are making 35K as skilled as the FAANG junior engineers entering at >100K? Yes. FAANG engineers are good but not extraordinary

> Are these junior engineers who are making 35K as skilled as the FAANG junior engineers entering at >100K? Yes. FAANG engineers are good but not extraordinary. > How many of these low-paid junior engineers are there? Enough to replace the >50% of SV engineers who are foreign-born? Probably, if we somehow reorganized the way hiring is done, such that we were able to pick up talent anywhere in the country. There are well more than a million software developers in the US according to the BLS.

DiogenesKynikos 7y ago
What you're effectively arguing is that the US does not require nearly as large a number of software engineers as it currently has. It could exclude more than half the software engineers in its largest tech hub, and still fill all the open positions. I find that a bit implausible, especially given how intensely software companies already compete with one another to attract workers. They're not only doing that out of the goodness of their hearts.
dragonwriter 7y ago
> There are well more than a million software developers in the US according to the BLS. That's not available idle capacity, that's a count of people currently employed in the field including all the foreign-born developers your nativist fantasy involves replacing. And the expected 10-year grown is 24% in that number, much faster than average for all employment areas.