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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be aware that we have over a million foreign workers temporarily in the US doing IT work.

Any it keeps growing.   Anyone waiting for a green card can stay forever so the
Numbers grow and grow.

They are all desperate for a green card and with this huge supply they suppress wages and allow ageism to be rampant in IT field

It is not a career anymore but a 5 to 15
Year job path before you will be fired and replaced with an HXXXb[/quote]

This person has no idea what they are talking about.

I’m a 56 year old US born development manager and was just hired for a new role. Also, I’m actively hiring developers and happy to talk with people of any age. The reality is that 95% of the applicants we get are not US born, and those that do apply are often wildly unqualified (e.g. can’t answer the question “what’s a relational database”).  [/quote]

PP is not entirely wrong.  Wages in this industry had been suppressed due to outsourcing and insourcing. Even if good English communication skills and long term experience and high skills are still valued it's true that these jobs used to pay better in the 90s and early 2000s before massive outsourcing/insourcing.  You can still get get paid well, but higher comp jobs are harder to get and they have poor life/work balance and more pressure and there is more competition.  It's still a decent way to make a living and comparatively better compensated than let's say having a social sciences or humanities degree, I mean that you have a much higher chance getting a living wage with Comp Sci degree.

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OK. It's not a great career, it's just the best option for anyone who can do it, except for a tiny fraction of people who can claw their way into BigLaw partnerships or get elected to Congress. Beware! [/quote]

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