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[quote=Anonymous][quote]That's not been my experience in my 15+ yrs in IT. The higher level people are usually US educated people, and the lower level drone techies are the H1Bs from foreign countries. There are several upper level people that have been educated in foreign countries, to be sure, but the vast majority that I've seen have been educated here. Maybe that will change in 10 yrs, but this isn't the case currently. [/quote]

I've been in IT for 20 years and as someone in a "Chief" level position, I'm unique in being educated in the US for K-12. (I went to private school.) The seniors in the more complex areas R&D, Product, Engineering, CTO, CIO in the top companies are all products of non-US based early education. You see US educated staff in sales, finance, marketing. I have no idea whether they were ever H1B visa holders early in their career.

Here's the difference  - the ability to solve complex problems with the simplest approach. So many of the US educated engineers would find a solution but it was overly complex and broke several other things or wasn't repeatable or didn't even solve the problem. Sometimes their approach just correlated with another action that they were too sloppy to realize they did and this was the solution. However, they didn't understand the difference between causation and correlation so they ran down the wrong roads.

In contrast, the engineers with non-US education had a very different approach. They would stop, think, and identify a solution that worked systemically, was simple, and always backed up by rigorous proof. They took a mathematical approach to measuring the solution rather than a qualitative assumption. They were able to address issues at each layer because they simply expanded the model and systemic approach. The US educated engineers has difficulty working across the layers and got up just seeing them as separate products.

The worst part of the MCPS 2.0 is that is actively training young students in all the bad habits that I see in the US educated engineers. 2.0 is not achieving deep thinking, 2.0 is achieving random thoughts that never connect which is VERY different. 
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