So, where are all these unemployed American programmers, who lost their jobs due to offshoring and H1B's? If you are one, please email me, as my $DAYJOB employer - Open Software Integrators - is aggressively hiring at all levels, from interns to Senior Developers and Senior Consultants. We are mainly looking in the Raleigh/Durham, NC and Chicago, IL areas, FWIW. prhodes (at) osintegraors (dot) com
The thing is, I'm skeptical of all this howling about American job loss (in terms of development / IT anyway) due to offshoring and H1Bs. It's all we can do to find qualified people.. we advertise for months and months and do dozens of interviews to find one person we want to hire. And it's not like our hiring bar is set super high... we don't do Google or Microsoft style "trick" interviews and we don't expect intern level candidates to code a red-black tree on the whiteboard or anything. We just want smart, hard-working people who are motivated self-learners and have reasonable social acumen. And there isn't exactly a flood of people like that beating down the door.
Now, I'm not saying that no one has ever lost their job to offshoring or whatever. But from what I can see, there is still plenty of work available for talented IT people in the US.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 15.9 ms ] threadThe thing is, I'm skeptical of all this howling about American job loss (in terms of development / IT anyway) due to offshoring and H1Bs. It's all we can do to find qualified people.. we advertise for months and months and do dozens of interviews to find one person we want to hire. And it's not like our hiring bar is set super high... we don't do Google or Microsoft style "trick" interviews and we don't expect intern level candidates to code a red-black tree on the whiteboard or anything. We just want smart, hard-working people who are motivated self-learners and have reasonable social acumen. And there isn't exactly a flood of people like that beating down the door.
Now, I'm not saying that no one has ever lost their job to offshoring or whatever. But from what I can see, there is still plenty of work available for talented IT people in the US.