Transcript of Obama's remarks at Howard

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Anonymous wrote:Large Financial corporation that i work at will hire hundreds of H1Bs this year but will never interview a single Howard computer science graduate What a culture we live in

Not sure how you make the leap between your workplace's attitude and the rest of society. Why do you think your employer acts that way?

Probably because they can get much better candidates cheaper through an H1B.

Doubt they are better. Many of the H1B applicants lie about their experience and displaced American workers train the H1B applicants to do their jobs. A sham.

I've worked in IT for 30 years and have worked opposite many H1B IT folks - as well as working opposite firms that outsource IT directly to India - and with only a handful of exceptions, they are not all that spectacular. Lots of communications problems, poor documentation in code, and they often cut corners or sweep issues under the table. Nominally cheap but not all that cheap in the long run because there often ends up being a lot of rework because they couldn't get it right in the first place. Yet managers don't understand that - they just look at the short game and immediate labor cost rather than the long term.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Large Financial corporation that i work at will hire hundreds of H1Bs this year but will never interview a single Howard computer science graduate What a culture we live in

Not sure how you make the leap between your workplace's attitude and the rest of society. Why do you think your employer acts that way?

Probably because they can get much better candidates cheaper through an H1B.

Doubt they are better. Many of the H1B applicants lie about their experience and displaced American workers train the H1B applicants to do their jobs. A sham.

I've worked in IT for 30 years and have worked opposite many H1B IT folks - as well as working opposite firms that outsource IT directly to India - and with only a handful of exceptions, they are not all that spectacular. Lots of communications problems, poor documentation in code, and they often cut corners or sweep issues under the table. Nominally cheap but not all that cheap in the long run because there often ends up being a lot of rework because they couldn't get it right in the first place. Yet managers don't understand that - they just look at the short game and immediate labor cost rather than the long term.

This so much. I can't tell you how many times I've spent on an 8 am conference call explaining the same concept repeatedly to developers in India.