Hate towards H1-B visa holders
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Anonymous
Here's where we find out Trump really has lost it, is sleeping 20 hours a day, and someone else is scratching out the xmas tweets. |
Anonymous
What mess is this; please do share. |
Anonymous
She lays it out there. Go read it if you’re interested. As I specifically noted I cant link to it. |
Anonymous
+1. If Trump’s term doesn’t improve things for American workers, the next president will surely be in the Bernie/Elizabeth Warren mold…Medicare for All, Wealth Tax, etc. The electorate is done with the corporate kowtowing. |
Anonymous
Thank you for this thoughtful reply. I think one thing that gets mixed up in the conversation is quality vs. quantity in STEM work. Yes, there are a lot of STEM graduates that are having trouble finding jobs. But simply doing the coursework and getting a degree isn't sufficient. I suspect the strong demand in Silicon Valley is for people who have genius-level talent at algorithm design, circuit design, quantum computing, AI, etc., and those people are very rare whether foreign-born or native. I worked for a NASA center for 25 years, and I'd say 10% of our engineering workforce provided 90% of the real technology innovation for missions. Another 40-50% was capable of doing good, more pedestrian work, and the remainder were shuffled around from project to project, mostly working on paperwork. The frustration among hiring managers is that you have to cast a very large net (including foreign born experts) to find that golden 10% of the STEM workforce that will really drive innovation. |
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There are already rules about posting jobs and having them go unfilled before getting a visa worker. They work around those rules. Another thing to remember is that not all of this is greedy corporations exploiting impoverished foreigners. Plenty of it is people already here getting family and friends here by any means necessary. I have firsthand experience with this.
In my own family I have a cousin in law who got into management at a tech company and his department now employs exclusively his extended family members. He sees nothing wrong with this. In his eyes he's helping his relatives which is what good people do. The problems of the American programmer aren't on his radar. Last month I went on a job interview and the interviewer seemed unusually hostile, grilling me about my personal life (children etc.) I am not used to being treated that way because I am a highly competent scientist in an in-demand field. I asked for a lab tour and the interviewer refused. I peeked in the window on the way out and saw that only one ethnicity worked there. I did get multiple other offers so I'm not some unemployed person whining. |
Anonymous
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-27-2024 |
Anonymous
| America needs more STEM grads, innovators and tech workers. We should be investing in our people to pursue those paths. |
Anonymous
It’s probably in her Substack here https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/ |
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As the parent of a newly minted STEM grad, one of the other crazy things we're seeing is that many STEM job postings are requiring, at minimum, one or more years of experience.
How is a new STEM grad supposed to get one or more years of experience if nobody will hire them? An internship doesn't add up to a full year, and there aren't enough STEM internships out there to give all STEM students out there the experience that industry claims to need. |
Anonymous
This has been my 2022 grad DD path. Right after UMD she secured and intern position with a contractor at 60k May. She became permanent in September and got a bump to 86k. A year later her whole group was laid off, but she was able to secure at TS with Poly a couple months prior. She was off for may 3 weeks, with tons of interviews and landed a position at 120k. A year later she's gotten a raise and close to 125k. A lot of her peers she graduated with that year have been somewhat successful. However I've heard the following years graduates have been having a tougher time. Key thing is to land an internship program that provides sound experience, not just busy work. Experience weighs more than starting salary. |
Anonymous
Or, the key thing was targeting jobs with TS, eliminating foreign competition. |
Anonymous
This! There aren’t enough of white, black, or Hispanic Americans to take IT jobs. It’s a tough field and education and work experience needed is pretty tough. That’s what stupid MAGAs don’t understand. But in the meantime, I’m gonna get my popcorn 🍿 out! |
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It's absolutely crazy that MAGA is anti-education while our country desperately needs to IMPROVE education, particularly STEM.
All fine and good that we can bring in STEM majors from China and India but we ABSOLUTELY NEED a lot more home-grown STEM expertise. We don't need to get rid of Department of Ed. We need to FIX it and use it to fix our educational outcomes and promote and probably even subsidize STEM and tech sector education for Americans. |