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Tech Workers Are Hard to Find. H-1B Visa Suspension Just Made Recruiting Harder
- duxup 6y agoI don't doubt some are hard to recruit. But as someone who was trying to break into one area (web development) of tech from another area (networking)....I felt like the whole industrial complex of hiring and getting ghosted by recruiters was there to keep me from talking with anyone actually technical... and only after randomly getting through those hoops (often just alphabet soup matching games) did get job offers. I just seems that if places are so desperate, it would be easier to get a job.... In the meantime some engineers at my old job told me I should apply for a job at the company that bought the piece of the company that I worked at for nearly two decades. They're desperate they said and they referred me....I got a call two months+ later and was told that my old job "data center networking support", now required a CS degree and I didn't have one.
- sarcasmatwork 6y agoTry not to fall into a contract worker trap. CS degree? They dont value experience? Good luck!
- digianarchist 6y agoThe should pivot to recruiting Canadians, Mexicans, Singaporeans and Chileans who are still eligible to work in the US.
- raincom 6y agoI knew a guy, who started his career as a backup tape boy at Bell labs, right after his high school. As he started to learn more about computers, he became a system administrator at Bell labs. Later, he became a developer at AT&T research labs, Florham Park, NJ. His boss, who is a MIT Ph.D, encouraged him to get some online undergrad degree so that he can be bumped to the right salary level. I believe, he still works for AT&T labs in Middletown, NJ. These are the old days, where managers encourage people to learn and give them opportunities. Now we have a different set of managers, whose only aim to tick off credentials, leetcode questions, pedigrees, pleasing upper management, etc.
- catsarebetter 6y agoOh boy I wish I couldn't relate to the last part but dangit you just get me