Facebook hires software engineers from India to fill US posts

[caseymoz]

33. (RETRACTED) Very true-- of software engineers.

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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 what I got wrong. I wish this board had a strike-thru feature, but I'll "excerpt" it. I apologize for my errors.)

FoxConn assembles hardware. It was electrical engineers they were looking for. I doubt information you find on the software engineer job market carries over to other advanced and/or tech degrees. We have glut in that market because there was expansion in it for over a decade. Unless you look at the numbers of all advanced and engineering graduates compared to the employment market, you neither get, nor show me, a correct picture.

I agree there's a propaganda element to saying there are no domestically available qualified workers. I find that often very suspect. However, any effective lie has to have at some truth to it. There are other fields where suppression of pay is not a factor and yet, first generation immigrant professionals are now growing in those fields. Such as: look at the figures of doctors in private practice. Half the physicians I've seen in the last decade have Indian and Pakistani last names. That's private practice; they're not working for less.

Underpayment and unavailability of qualified applicants are not factors that are mutually excluding.

However, I stick with this statement:

Don't ignore the dysfunction and decline of our education system, nor the difficulty of affording higher education now.