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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Industry likes immigrants with a CS or Engineering background in order to create downward pressure on CS and engineering salaries in the USA.

The "shortage" of CS/engineering graduates that Musk and others allege is mostly a myth - caveat that there legitimately are a *small* number of narrow CS/engineering specialties which are in less supply.

There probably is an over supply of web programmers and ordinary application programmers at present.  People with specific experience in embedded systems, Linux internals, Verilog/VHDL programming, or networking internals should have zero trouble finding good work - as those are examples of chronic shortage areas.  In the metro DC/Baltimore area, there also is a chronic shortage of clearable US Citizens with skills in reverse engineering and applied cryptography. [/quote]
Applied cryptography issue is mostly that CS majors in the US hardly have math in them. No, discrete is not enough.[/quote]

Lack of ordinary math is an issue only for a very few US undergrad CS programs, most often at a Small LAC.

The primary issue for those DC/Baltimore metro jobs are the non-functional criteria - specifically US Citizen (not green card/PR and not on some visa) AND clearable.  For US citizens, working in the Federal sector often provides a high degree of job security.

While criteria for "clearable" seem looser now than in the past, marijuana use is an example of a potential issue (because Federal law still prohibits it, even if some states allow it).  Various other items also factor into "clearable" - well beyond the scope of this thread. [/quote]

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