25 years as a software engineer here. The field is dying for Americans. Top notch highly skilled experienced Americans cannot even get interviews. Indians only hire Indians and are rude, unprofessional and uncooperative with Americans (a few exceptions but 90% or so).
Hundreds of thousands are laid off and companies are replacing with cheap foreign replacements who are often lazy and incompetent. There is no fico tax and they cost 20-50% less depending on the position and they are unlikely to report illegal behavior since they will get sent back.
The problem is way worse than most people think and it’s baffling why people believe we are making it up.
It will eventually be true though since Americans are finding out they will be iced out and STEM will plummet… most graduates will not be American… colleges charge way more tuition of foreigners too…. And thus incentivized even further to discriminate against Americans.
And Major Mountain...You HAVE hit on a VERY sore spot...I spent 30 years in the field and was at a MAJOR financial services firm and I saw the writing on the wall when they brought in the Indies...AND believe me...these people could NOT think their way out of the box, if the box was already opened. Some of them were good and the good ones did not pass on info like they were supposed too. Caused a lot of hang ups. I told a friend of mine before I left, NOTE: I LEFT FIRST BEFORE THE SKY CRASHED THE COMPANY and ECONOMY that the company was going down...he didn't believe me.
My company is mainly owned by Indians, and from first hand experience, not trying to be rude but they're not as highly intelligent as the media likes to portray...recently they just completely changed a perfectly working process that we've been doing for 2+ years into some convoluted and confusing process to "save on bandwidth", but we've just been sitting around, wasting time, waiting for "them" to give us something to do....everyone on my team (who are Americans) know it's stupid, but can't say anything because we're at Indias mercy 🫠
AS...you have hit upon something that I just found out by accident when trying to install Windows Server 2022. The VERY first thing I did was too look AT THE NUMBER OF PROCESSES RUNNING OR IN SLEEP MODE...it is a hodge podge of doggie things REAALY DO NOT HELP THE OS...it is mind boggling!!!!
Graduated with a degree in Network Infrastructure and held various certifications. Was replaced 2 years ago for foreigners as well as half my team at a job I worked for 5 years.
25 years as a software engineer here. The field is dying for Americans. Top notch highly skilled experienced Americans cannot even get interviews. Indians only hire Indians and are rude, unprofessional and uncooperative with Americans (a few exceptions but 90% or so).
Hundreds of thousands are laid off and companies are replacing with cheap foreign replacements who are often lazy and incompetent. There is no fico tax and they cost 20-50% less depending on the position and they are unlikely to report illegal behavior since they will get sent back.
The problem is way worse than most people think and it’s baffling why people believe we are making it up.
https://x.com/USTechWorkers/status/1872773432573854044
This whole "there's not enough skilled workers" is a flat-out lie.
It will eventually be true though since Americans are finding out they will be iced out and STEM will plummet… most graduates will not be American… colleges charge way more tuition of foreigners too…. And thus incentivized even further to discriminate against Americans.
Yes, the illusionary problem Elon and Vivek have pointed to is called a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And Major Mountain...You HAVE hit on a VERY sore spot...I spent 30 years in the field and was at a MAJOR financial services firm and I saw the writing on the wall when they brought in the Indies...AND believe me...these people could NOT think their way out of the box, if the box was already opened. Some of them were good and the good ones did not pass on info like they were supposed too. Caused a lot of hang ups. I told a friend of mine before I left, NOTE: I LEFT FIRST BEFORE THE SKY CRASHED THE COMPANY and ECONOMY that the company was going down...he didn't believe me.
My company is mainly owned by Indians, and from first hand experience, not trying to be rude but they're not as highly intelligent as the media likes to portray...recently they just completely changed a perfectly working process that we've been doing for 2+ years into some convoluted and confusing process to "save on bandwidth", but we've just been sitting around, wasting time, waiting for "them" to give us something to do....everyone on my team (who are Americans) know it's stupid, but can't say anything because we're at Indias mercy 🫠
AS...you have hit upon something that I just found out by accident when trying to install Windows Server 2022. The VERY first thing I did was too look AT THE NUMBER OF PROCESSES RUNNING OR IN SLEEP MODE...it is a hodge podge of doggie things REAALY DO NOT HELP THE OS...it is mind boggling!!!!
Graduated with a degree in Network Infrastructure and held various certifications. Was replaced 2 years ago for foreigners as well as half my team at a job I worked for 5 years.
Elon fired 2 Indian executives right off the bat.