Job Fraud by US IT Employers
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
You cannot have a skilled pool of unemployed candidates and also have unfilled job openings together, can you?
Hmm... One of my brothers, who in my (admittedly biased) opinion is very skilled, spent nearly three years after graduation in four different cities across two states looking for work as a programmer. No takers. I have several friends who've gone even longer after graduation with no employment in their chosen field. Frankly, i've no idea what to attribute this to. Poor resume skills? Employers looking for an alphabet soup of trendy technologies instead of the fundamentals being taught in CS classes? Bad luck?
Shog9 wrote:
One of my brothers, who in my (admittedly biased) opinion is very skilled, spent nearly three years after graduation in four different cities across two states looking for work as a programmer. No takers. I have several friends who've gone even longer after graduation with no employment in their chosen field. Frankly, i've no idea what to attribute this to. Poor resume skills? Employers looking for an alphabet soup of trendy technologies instead of the fundamentals being taught in CS classes? Bad luck?
That's definitely odd. Pretty much every CPian who's posted about their company looking for people have complained that they find it so damn difficult to get good people. Many have given up trying to find good candidates as it just wastes their time. If your brother couldn't get a job for three whole years, I'd say it would be a combination of poor resume skills, bad luck, and quite possibly not knowing where to look for the right job.
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On one side there's the argument that there are 1000s of skilled yet unemployed American programmers. On the other side, you see companies complaining that they are finding it extremely difficult to hire quality developers. In fact developer positions remain open for several months because of the difficulty in getting the right candidates. Somehow this doesn't add up. If there are 1000s of quality candidates out there, how come they do not show interest in these job openings? You cannot have a skilled pool of unemployed candidates and also have unfilled job openings together, can you?
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkNishant Sivakumar wrote:
You cannot have a skilled pool of unemployed candidates and also have unfilled job openings together, can you?
Of course you can. Offer them a salary of $5/hr. Marc
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Shog9 wrote:
One of my brothers, who in my (admittedly biased) opinion is very skilled, spent nearly three years after graduation in four different cities across two states looking for work as a programmer. No takers. I have several friends who've gone even longer after graduation with no employment in their chosen field. Frankly, i've no idea what to attribute this to. Poor resume skills? Employers looking for an alphabet soup of trendy technologies instead of the fundamentals being taught in CS classes? Bad luck?
That's definitely odd. Pretty much every CPian who's posted about their company looking for people have complained that they find it so damn difficult to get good people. Many have given up trying to find good candidates as it just wastes their time. If your brother couldn't get a job for three whole years, I'd say it would be a combination of poor resume skills, bad luck, and quite possibly not knowing where to look for the right job.
Regards, Nish
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkNishant Sivakumar wrote:
Many have given up trying to find good candidates as it just wastes their time.
Uh-huh. We just filled a new position, and pickings were slim. But then, that's for a position in a small town in the upper midwest paying... somewhat below average wages for the area. Frankly, we got better than we deserved. I assumed things were better elsewhere...
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Yes, but can you blame them for doing so if that's the only legal way they can hire programmers they want at the rate they can afford?
-- Nish on sketchy hiring practices
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
You cannot have a skilled pool of unemployed candidates and also have unfilled job openings together, can you?
Of course you can. Offer them a salary of $5/hr. Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
Of course you can. Offer them a salary of $5/hr.
I believe the minimum pay for an H1B employee is 50,000 - which comes to $24/hr (not great, but not the same as $5/hr either) :-) So if they are being offered $5/hr they must be quite bad!
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Many have given up trying to find good candidates as it just wastes their time.
Uh-huh. We just filled a new position, and pickings were slim. But then, that's for a position in a small town in the upper midwest paying... somewhat below average wages for the area. Frankly, we got better than we deserved. I assumed things were better elsewhere...
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Yes, but can you blame them for doing so if that's the only legal way they can hire programmers they want at the rate they can afford?
-- Nish on sketchy hiring practices
Wow - I just noticed I am on your sig :-)
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Christian Graus wrote:
But, it's still the case that if an employer can get someone good for less, it is to their benefit to do so.
Yes, that will always be so. They'd have to be stupid not to do that though :-) But the way to fight that is to improve your skills and to work hard at making sure you are worth the company's money. I know it's tough, but I sometimes feel people exaggerate how some super-talented folks are unemployed because someone stole their jobs by working for cheap.
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkNishant Sivakumar wrote:
I know it's tough, but I sometimes feel people exaggerate how some super-talented folks are unemployed because someone stole their jobs by working for cheap.
And there are people who exaggerate the other way, and say that Americans don't deserve the jobs because Americans are just stupid and lazy. Any generalization like that is just bigotry, plain and simple.
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Wow - I just noticed I am on your sig :-)
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkNishant Sivakumar wrote:
Wow - I just noticed I am on your sig
I'm not sure that's a good thing :~
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Wow - I just noticed I am on your sig
I'm not sure that's a good thing :~
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Warren Stevens wrote:
I'm not sure that's a good thing
Well, it's in light gray - so, that's something to be cheery about I suppose.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
I know it's tough, but I sometimes feel people exaggerate how some super-talented folks are unemployed because someone stole their jobs by working for cheap.
And there are people who exaggerate the other way, and say that Americans don't deserve the jobs because Americans are just stupid and lazy. Any generalization like that is just bigotry, plain and simple.
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Richie308 wrote:
And there are people who exaggerate the other way, and say that Americans don't deserve the jobs because Americans are just stupid and lazy. Any generalization like that is just bigotry, plain and simple.
Yes, there's a lot of generalization both ways. The truth is probably somewhere along the middle.
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Warren Stevens wrote:
I'm not sure that's a good thing
Well, it's in light gray - so, that's something to be cheery about I suppose.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Of course you can. Offer them a salary of $5/hr.
I believe the minimum pay for an H1B employee is 50,000 - which comes to $24/hr (not great, but not the same as $5/hr either) :-) So if they are being offered $5/hr they must be quite bad!
Regards, Nish
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkOn thing you need to know, Nish, is that the law requires employers to pay H1B visa holders comparable salaries as non-visa holders. This isn't just to protect American, permanent resident or green card, workers from being unfairly undercut, but to prevent H1B visa holders from being exploited.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Wow - I just noticed I am on your sig :-)
Regards, Nish
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link:) Ya, i needed a new sig, and even if you didn't mean it quite the way i took it, i still liked it.
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Yes, but can you blame them for doing so if that's the only legal way they can hire programmers they want at the rate they can afford?
-- Nish on sketchy hiring practices
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YouTube Video On Avoiding U.S. Job Applicants Angers Programmers IT professionals criticize a law firm's video play-by-play description on how to circumvent the PERM process in favor of H-1B visas. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199905192[^] This law firm actually held a conference to advise attendees on the best ways to avoid qualified American job-seekers. If this doesn't typify why people hate lawyers, I don't know what does. The article contains a link to the video that criticizes the conference.
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H1B Bills purport to help solve the Technology gap in US industry, but really all they do is hold down wages of Information Technology professionals. I think the really reason that H1B exists is to make sure that the MBA's get payed more than the IT guys. And this article goes a long way to providing proof.
Steven S. Ashley
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Shog9 wrote:
One of my brothers, who in my (admittedly biased) opinion is very skilled, spent nearly three years after graduation in four different cities across two states looking for work as a programmer. No takers. I have several friends who've gone even longer after graduation with no employment in their chosen field. Frankly, i've no idea what to attribute this to. Poor resume skills? Employers looking for an alphabet soup of trendy technologies instead of the fundamentals being taught in CS classes? Bad luck?
That's definitely odd. Pretty much every CPian who's posted about their company looking for people have complained that they find it so damn difficult to get good people. Many have given up trying to find good candidates as it just wastes their time. If your brother couldn't get a job for three whole years, I'd say it would be a combination of poor resume skills, bad luck, and quite possibly not knowing where to look for the right job.
Regards, Nish
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkQuit whining about the H1Bs. For the IT industry to stay competitive in a free market scenario it has to go with the best quality at the best price available. If you want 200K a year to make web apps - you are going to be dissapointed. It's capitalism so get used to it. Protectionism of domestic industry in the face of competition is a communist measure and I thought you all are against that form of government, right? I think the pay for programmers is quite reasonable for what programmers do. Programming is a job done equally well sitting anywhere in the world. If the wages here become too high there won't be any programmers in the country left. BTW I am not on an H1b. The next thing industry needs to do is import doctors and lawyers so that their fees go down too :-)
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Quit whining about the H1Bs. For the IT industry to stay competitive in a free market scenario it has to go with the best quality at the best price available. If you want 200K a year to make web apps - you are going to be dissapointed. It's capitalism so get used to it. Protectionism of domestic industry in the face of competition is a communist measure and I thought you all are against that form of government, right? I think the pay for programmers is quite reasonable for what programmers do. Programming is a job done equally well sitting anywhere in the world. If the wages here become too high there won't be any programmers in the country left. BTW I am not on an H1b. The next thing industry needs to do is import doctors and lawyers so that their fees go down too :-)
Tanveer Ansari 1 wrote:
Quit whining about the H1Bs.
You've got to be freaking kidding me - unless you accidentally replied to the wrong post. :~
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On thing you need to know, Nish, is that the law requires employers to pay H1B visa holders comparable salaries as non-visa holders. This isn't just to protect American, permanent resident or green card, workers from being unfairly undercut, but to prevent H1B visa holders from being exploited.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Joe Woodbury wrote:
On thing you need to know, Nish, is that the law requires employers to pay H1B visa holders comparable salaries as non-visa holders. This isn't just to protect American, permanent resident or green card, workers from being unfairly undercut, but to prevent H1B visa holders from being exploited.
Yes, that's automatically enforced. In the H1B application form, there's a column where they have a list of avg salaries based on city/job-title. And the pay-offer for the H1B applicant has to match that to qualify for the Visa. H1Ber exploitation occurs primarily because the H1B employee is tied to his employer. To change jobs, he needs a new H1B (done via a Visa transfer). Some shady companies abuse this to over-work employees or not give them the documented salary etc. If H1Bers can change jobs (as if they were on a temporary green card), there wouldn't be any H1B abuse at all. Though personally, I don't know anyone on an H1B who's under-paid. All my H1B friends make way more than the industry average. But I do believe that there are a lot of H1Bers being exploited too (just that I don't know of anyone personally who has been).
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Richie308 wrote:
The point is that employers are purposely and deliberately finding any way they can to disqualify American workers through sheer technicalities, just to enable them to hire non-US citizens. Watch the video. It's plain as the nose on your face.
Yes, but can you blame them for doing so if that's the only legal way they can hire programmers they want at the rate they can afford?
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Richie308 wrote:
It all comes down to whose ox is being gored, Christian.
Actually, no. See my reply to CG. People have to stop trying to see things in black and white.
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkThis is sick. I myself an immigrant, this is not fair.
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Richie308 wrote:
It all comes down to whose ox is being gored, Christian.
Actually, no. See my reply to CG. People have to stop trying to see things in black and white.
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkOf course, I see a little headline like this show up in Gmail this morning: Hire Programmers Offshore - www.supportresort.net - Quality Indian .NET Programmers From $3.36 per hour. It's easy! That's what American companies want to see. Labor that's almost $3/hr less than the current minimum wage. I mean, how else would the CEO be able to make his yacht payment? ~bob
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Richie308 wrote:
The point is that employers are purposely and deliberately finding any way they can to disqualify American workers through sheer technicalities, just to enable them to hire non-US citizens. Watch the video. It's plain as the nose on your face.
Yes, but can you blame them for doing so if that's the only legal way they can hire programmers they want at the rate they can afford?
Regards, Nish
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