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> America is at near full employment Then why does it take months and months for even experienced devs to land a job?

• JumpCrisscross 6mo ago
  > why does it take months and months for even experienced devs to land a job? Software is undergoing a secular downsizing. It increasingly looks like we have too many SWEs, and that we need to support them retraining. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a labor shortage in other industries.
  • remarkEon 6mo ago
    I'm not disputing what you're saying in your comment necessarily, and supposing it's true for a moment ... why are we granting any visas at all here?
    • foldr 6mo ago
      The presupposition behind that question is that immigration is a necessary evil to be limited as much as possible. I am not American, but that strikes me as an ironic position for Americans to take.
      • remarkEon 6mo ago
        Why? Seems in line with prior oscillations on sentiment toward immigration.
        • foldr 6mo ago
          Sure, but it was ironic then too.
          • remarkEon 6mo ago
            How so? I really don't follow.
            • foldr 6mo ago
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