[mseebach]

> are you implying that if it was feasible it would be done already?

You brought up the fact that there are 12 million workless, as a counter to Microsoft's desire to hire H1-B labor. If that's not to suggest they could fill those positions, what's the relevancy?

> Microsoft could invest 40-50k a year into people who qualify for retraining either in house or at local universities and still come out ahead.

Uhm, 40-50k a year is more expensive than full-time Harvard tuition. That does change the argument a little bit.

[wheelerwj]

cool, so MS can send 6000 people to harvard for a CS degree while having them work on some menial code/internship in the mean time.

[mseebach]

Yes, that's at least 12 times more expensive then the $10k.

[wheelerwj]

but its half as much as the yearly cost of a hiring a new dev.