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Tens of thousands of highly skilled workers turned away
- goodgoblin 18y agoCould this possibly result in a programmer shortage? How would that be bad for the programmers that are here? How can it not result in higher salaries for the programmers that live here? I understand there is an argument which states that if companies can't find programmers here they will go to them by offshoring their work. But there is nothing to prevent that from happening now. If 10's of thousands of programmers are being turned away there must be some benefit to actually being on US soil.
- gojomo 18y agoIt could be incrementally and temporarily good for resident programmers, who are protected from competition. It's bad for the economy as a whole, because the same new things cost more to create. And it's bad over the long term, because development moves over time to other countries.
- timcederman 18y agoIf Google dropped its ridiculous policies, such as rejecting potential employees because of low GPAs (regardless of later experience or demonstrated aptitude), then I'm sure they'd make up the shortfall.
- timcederman 18y agoWhy am I being downmodded? My comments come from a discussion I had with a tech lead at Google last week who complained to me he couldn't hire enough good people because of this ridiculous policy. There is no spite or malice in my original comment.
- zach 18y ago> Those lucky enough to win the H-1B lottery will be allowed to work in the U.S., but the rest will be turned away. Sounds good to me; who wants unlucky employees anyway? They're always having stuff fall on them. I say we keep letting only the luckiest ones in.
- vlad 18y agoThat's hillarious. Thank you.