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I am highly skeptical that there are no US applicants that can do the job and accept $160k TC. I think you guys just enjoy the wage arbitrage and this is an inh

• alephnerd 1y ago
  In cybersecurity and DevSecOps it's a very common occurrence. It's very hard to find software engineers and PMs with a security background in the US, which makes delivery difficult, while in countries abroad, finding a candidate who has a background in eBPF, OS internals, computer hardware, networking, C/C++, and CloudOps/DevOps topics like K8s or IAM all at once is fairly easy to find. Since the mid-2010s, American CS programs have increasingly dropped OS, CompArch, and Networking classes or provide a single summary class that most students promptly forget after the class is complete, because LeetCode-driven hiring simply didn't incentivize this kind of knowledge. Meanwhile, in Israel, Romania, India, and Poland, these skills are fairly table stakes requirements in a CS degree. You see this reflected in Cybersecurity startups as well - almost all early stage startups in the space are now Israeli or Indian founded, with either a small office of diaspora in the Bay or in the old country. It's even worse on the chip design side, because the salaries in the field are low in the US ($80-110k), margins are low in the industry being hardware based, AND students increasingly don't take Computer Design, Circuits, DSP, and Logic Design because CS is increasingly segregated from ECE, and EE/CE enrollment is falling. Meanwhile, a course like DSP is made a CS requirement as well as an EE requirement in India, China, Israel, and Eastern Europe
  • BergAndCo 1y ago
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