AnAnonyCowherd

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by AnAnonyCowherd 2y ago
This need to bend the argument back to the initial English colonization of America is stupid. These mediocre Indian IT drones are not putting everything they own in a boat and washing up here hoping to find a better life. They're the r
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by AnAnonyCowherd 2y ago
> Does the US have the required people, in terms of numbers and skills? For 30 years, IT managers at blue chip US corporations have exploited the H1-B visa program by saying, "No," and then hiring a never-ending stream of barel
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by AnAnonyCowherd 2y ago
> If you have that kind of team, budget or problem that deserves those, then more power to you. This is the operative issue, and it drives me crazy. Companies that can afford to deploy thousands of services in the cloud definitely have
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by AnAnonyCowherd 2y ago
I work for a Fortune 250 that is literally withering on the vine because they chose to focus on DEI before it was even a publicly-recognized thing. A VP of HR once told a former boss -- who had a resume of a good, local choice for a role he
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by AnAnonyCowherd 4y ago
> This is what happens when you hire the same kinds of people to write the software for your car that you've hired for 25 years to write the terrible internal applications inside the company that everyone hates, and in the same terr
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by AnAnonyCowherd 5y ago
Bologna. I've seen monstrous tech debt all over my Fortune 250, and it's pushing us further and further away from competitiveness and profitability. And it's not just the approach to software. They're also sabotaging lon
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by AnAnonyCowherd 6y ago
> At the same time, if a program There's no "if" here.
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by AnAnonyCowherd 6y ago
I work for a company that's about 30th in terms of H1B's. All around me, I see degreed engineers -- many with their Masters -- doing clerical work that a sharp high-school graduate could do. I'm not talking about a few. I&#x2
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by AnAnonyCowherd 6y ago
> They also come with a minimum salary requirement, which for most tech companies would start at $150,000. While I understand that my company is cheating the system, this particular requirement is news to me. I personally work with dozen
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by AnAnonyCowherd 6y ago
A lot of people are bemoaning this move from the viewpoint in the Valley. I work for an old-school Fortune 250 which is a top-30 H-1B holder. They strategically employ thousands of visa holders for jobs that hardly require a high school edu
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by AnAnonyCowherd 7y ago
> The problem is people design these things without any sort of actual testing in actual conditions where the software is supposed to be used. I’ll do YOU one better. </Drax> I work in an industry where software is still creat
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by AnAnonyCowherd 8y ago
I suppose someone would say that I could have been more diplomatic, but someone needed to voice a differing opinion. Unfortunately, there was just no way -- diplomatically or otherwise -- I was going to be allowed to influence the culture o
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by AnAnonyCowherd 8y ago
I got hired at a Fortune 250 to rewrite a system, from the ground up, that had been running for 5 years. I rewrote it in about a year and a half. Huge success; 1000 happy users. What I learned over time was that "the" person respo
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by AnAnonyCowherd 9y ago
I wish it were as simple as "incompetence." There's a director-level IT manager where I work which has made my personal job a hassle for years. There's a follow-on business process to our main process, which was a terrib
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by AnAnonyCowherd 9y ago
> Let's be real, males using positions of power to obtain sex isn't exactly a US-only problem, it's fundamental hardwiring of virtually every primate species I'm sorry, but did you just make a generalizing statement l
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by AnAnonyCowherd 9y ago
> Now, what happens if you kill the H1B? Companies all start paying the premium for these most-sought-after and most-specialized technologists, as they should , which then causes more native-born people to pursue these jobs, knowing the
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by AnAnonyCowherd 10y ago
Alright, my turn for anecdata, since I am having this... "discussion" right now. About 3 years ago, I was hired to write a program to partially automate an incredibly complicated engineering workflow. It was a total rewrite of a c
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by AnAnonyCowherd 10y ago
In the words in Inigo, "No, there is too much. Let me sum up." By reason of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection clause, all manner of discrimination has been made illegal. All except discrimination against conservative or
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by AnAnonyCowherd 10y ago
I believe both of my comments make it evident that I'm perfectly clear on this. In fact, I don't see how it would be possible to argue what I WAS saying without understanding this. But, hey, I've been wrong before; I will be
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by AnAnonyCowherd 10y ago
I believe I specifically said that I understand my free speech has a cost. Now, I don't know if you'll get this, since my original comment seems hidden or shadowbanned from the main discussion now, which just goes to prove the poi
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by AnAnonyCowherd 10y ago
I know my personal views about sexuality and proclivity, expressed on my personal web site, cost me at least one possible job, and maybe a couple others as well, over the years. If my views on these issues were to be discovered on the int
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by AnAnonyCowherd 10y ago
Where I work, they're filling roles of what would have been called an engineering clerk, back in the old days. Jobs for which a BS is an over-qualification. The visa holders are vastly underpaid for their education level, while people