Facebook hires software engineers from India to fill US posts

[caseymoz]

12. (RETRACTED) Not true.

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(Facts given here have been demonstrated incorrect through corrections by HiPointDem. I don't, however, take messages down if the facts are incorrect, I leave them up to inform people of what I got wrong. I wish this board had a strike-thru feature, but I'll "excerpt" it. I apologize for my error.)

According to "This American Life" at the end of their retraction program, they talked to a financial reporter about FoxConn. He said that cost of labor, believe it or not, isn't that big of a factor as you think. When FoxConn built their plant in China, they needed 1,600 engineers to launch it. In the US, it would have taken 7 months to find and hire all of them. In China, it took 17 days. And the guy emphasized, it wouldn't have taken that long, but the HR crew dragged their feet.

Cost of Labor is a factor, but our education system really cripples us. Primary and secondary education is one thing, but our loan-based higher education, which starts graduates off tens of thousands of dollars in debt, that is really what's plunging us down the toilet. Now there's no way to get out from under the debt.

An advanced degree could set you back over $100,000. I wouldn't recommend higher education to almost anyone in the US now.