who complain about H1B visa holders are the same people who vote against funding education fully. If America wanted to solve this problem in-house, it would, by investing in STEM for their own citizens. The rich don't want to and the can pay visa holders less. So quit complaining that you have 100 percent Indian teams when you want to do nothing to solve the cause of that.
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@e2 don’t knock a plumber. You probably don’t even know the difference between sc--wdrivers much less have the ability to use one.
@OP is the STEM education in India top tier then? Are we even getting good talent? Or does a last name have something to do with it?
What is “full education funding” in your view? The US pays more per pupil than a majority of the world.
It feels like we are working in a 3rd world country sweatshop. And yes Indians are replacing perfectly good Americans that are laid off
You are under the impression that they are more educated then us. False, they lay off Americans and then replace those exact same jobs with h1b. Meaning, that someone with the qualifications already had the job.
H1B is a program specifically created to depress wages in the tech field and it's working. Now a plumber with no college and 6-8 years of experience makes, on average, the same as a college educated software engineer with 6-8 years experience.
Research has shown that H1B on average are paid on the extreme lower end of the wage scale for their location. This last part is key because critics often cite 6-figure salaries for H1B workers in Silicon Valley. If you are making $125K in Silicon Valley, that is essentially barely sustenance wages.
Sorry but the OP needs to educate themselves. Studies show that the U.S. is graduating enough STEM students but the openings & pay are falling behind - nearly 50% of STEM graduates either can't find a job in their STEM field, once they graduate, OR find a higher paying job outside of STEM. So we keep hyping STEM but they aren't enough jobs there. Maybe that's because we have 750,000-1,000,000 H1B foreign workers filling the roles these graduates would get. Secondly, studies show raising funding for education results in worst outcomes. Why? because instead of going to the teachers, it just funds administrations (i.e. bureaucratic bloat)
I know people who can't land an IT job after graduation because Indians are cheaper and hiring managers are all Indians who only hire and promote their own.
Makes no mistake, you can't ever beat a third world country for wages. Also, you don't need a college degree to code. Community colleges can offer job specific training. Ironically, college degree is required for most tech jobs regardless if it needs it. Indians lie on their resume, but it is impossible to lie on your resume if you are a US citizen.
As long as companies keep suppressing wages and job opportunities for citizens in favor of Indians, it doesn't matter how much money the federal government pours into education, no one has the incentive wasting time and effort in IT.
BTW, coding == STEP. A lot of people avoiding Computer Science or related majors but do well in other engineering disciplines. You just don't want to get into a field full of third word workers.
Nope I'm for full education funding and against h1b abuse.