| > I'm speaking as someone just coming out of a long and painful job hunt. Sounds like you're speaking like someone that feels slighted by bad hiring, lashing out at groups that have nothing to do with you.
I switched jobs twice in the last 3 years, it's not an easy process and I have 18 years of professional experience. > There are a lot of good ones too. Not nearly as many as we would like. > Recruiters post insane expectations That is changing fast and most of the jobs that I have seen have sane requirements now. > H1B fresh out of grad school Grad school - they're advanced degree holders(MS or PHD), that's already above a fresh CS BSc graduate. H1b has not been a source of cheap engineering talent for years now. The salaries of H1b are legally above median, which squarely puts them out of the CS graduate category. It cost a company $20k for my L1b in 2016, H1b was about half with 30% chance of success and 6-12 month wait. Saying that CS graduates compete with fresh H1b is ignorant at best. Advanced degree holders do not compete with CS graduates, that are BSc... let alone bootcampers. |
You make it sound like I'm lashing out against H1B holders. I'm not. It's the "There's not enough talent in US, so we have to seek elsewhere" sentiment from hiring managers that I strongly disagree with. There's tons of talent here, they might just be harder to find because hiring is so broken.