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There was a survey post on HN a while back stating that <5% of the US workforce can write any code at all. So it's fairer to it's really ~490K vs 8M.
by alexpotato 1y ago
There was a survey post on HN a while back stating that <5% of the US workforce can write any code at all.
So it's fairer to it's really ~490K vs 8M.
- preciousoo 1y agoThat's ~6% of the 9M. Not nothing but not a glaring amount. I'm seeing that there are 1.7M total SWEs in the US, which would bring the H1B % to 30%, assuming all are SWEs. This would make it a significant amount, not sure if it's enough to suppress wages / pass on US persons if they attempted it. One look at the top H1B employers should stop this narrative however, because those companies do not pay near peanuts. https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employe...