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have you been inside any big tech company? lots of orgs are > 80% foreign.
by mikert89 2mo ago
have you been inside any big tech company? lots of orgs are > 80% foreign.
- davidw 2mo agoThat's not actually true; people have been complaining about this for decades, and it's never been the zero-sum game that they claim it is. I mean, I wrote this 12 years ago in response to similar discussions on this same site, and in the intervening years, we had a great market for software engineers: https://journal.dedasys.com/2014/12/29/people-places-and-jobs/ https://journal.dedasys.com/2014/12/29/people-places-and-job... What has changed is 1) the zero interest rate environment went away and 2) LLM's.
- mikert89 2mo agoive worked at multiple FAANG, almost always been the only american on a team of 10. theres some huge push by corporations to deny it to justify shipping in more foreign labor.
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- johnnyanmac 2mo agoThis doesn't explain the whole story because 1) despite the accusations of "overtiring", none of these companies actually have decreased headcount over the last 5-6 years. They have all grown, though perhaps not in North America. 2) LLM's have not been shown to significantly replace current work as of 2026. The most optimistic projects is that it could do maybe 5% of current jobs. That doesn't match the current death in hiring and mass layoffs.
- a34729t 2mo agoYeah my new VP is from a certain country in the eastern hemisphere, and the interviews I've conducted for US-based candidates oddly enough have been 100% of engineers from that same country (say 30 or so in the last 2 years).
- andriy_koval 2mo agoI hope one day there will be huge class action lawsuits and prosecutions given how clearly obvious this issue is.