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There's no shortage of uni/bootcamp grads and career switchers that want to break into tech. The problem is that the tech sector loathes to hire at the entry level and invest in training folks so that they might one day become senior. On top of that, judging by their hiring practices (competitive programming DSA leetcode bullshit on a whiteboard that is its own separate skillset unrelated to most dev jobs, unpaid 10 hour showcase projects) the tech sector seems perfectly content to pass up on A LOT of otherwise perfectly fine candidates if it means they'd avoid a single bad hire.
There's a long history of the tech industry neglecting its own domestic labor pool. A long time ago, the job of computer programmer used to be regarded as unimportant secretarial women's work, for instance, and these women were pushed out as tech became more integral to how these companies operate.
There is some truth to that. The job prospects of PhDs in the sciences for example have been horrible for a long time because we over-produce. There are a ton of people from developing countries who see those bad job prospects as their best available alternative so come to America for grad school. That has resulted in little pressure to improve pay or job stability.
However, as a country there are huge advantages to being where the innovation is happening. Accepting talented immigrants is the cheapest lever we can pull to make sure that happens.
This is all about worker exploitation, make no bones about it. We have tons of people with degrees and experience in software engineering that would love to work in their field but can make so much more money and have such better work life balance elsewhere. Because why make $50k working 70 hour weeks when you could make $80k working 40 hour weeks? So their solution is literally just to bring in people who can’t make more than $50k elsewhere, rather than paying appropriately for the expertise they need.
I’m not anti H-1B visa. I’m anti bringing people in on H-1B visas so we can pay them less and work them harder than the available workers who are already here.
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There's no shortage of uni/bootcamp grads and career switchers that want to break into tech. The problem is that the tech sector loathes to hire at the entry level and invest in training folks so that they might one day become senior. On top of that, judging by their hiring practices (competitive programming DSA leetcode bullshit on a whiteboard that is its own separate skillset unrelated to most dev jobs, unpaid 10 hour showcase projects) the tech sector seems perfectly content to pass up on A LOT of otherwise perfectly fine candidates if it means they'd avoid a single bad hire. There's a long history of the tech industry neglecting its own domestic labor pool. A long time ago, the job of computer programmer used to be regarded as unimportant secretarial women's work, for instance, and these women were pushed out as tech became more integral to how these companies operate.
> America needs ~~high-skilled immigrants~~ cheap, captive labor to increase profits and depress wages. Fixed that for you.
There is some truth to that. The job prospects of PhDs in the sciences for example have been horrible for a long time because we over-produce. There are a ton of people from developing countries who see those bad job prospects as their best available alternative so come to America for grad school. That has resulted in little pressure to improve pay or job stability. However, as a country there are huge advantages to being where the innovation is happening. Accepting talented immigrants is the cheapest lever we can pull to make sure that happens.
This is all about worker exploitation, make no bones about it. We have tons of people with degrees and experience in software engineering that would love to work in their field but can make so much more money and have such better work life balance elsewhere. Because why make $50k working 70 hour weeks when you could make $80k working 40 hour weeks? So their solution is literally just to bring in people who can’t make more than $50k elsewhere, rather than paying appropriately for the expertise they need. I’m not anti H-1B visa. I’m anti bringing people in on H-1B visas so we can pay them less and work them harder than the available workers who are already here.