Re: Testing job applicants

[kragen@dnaco.net (Kragen Sitaker)]

In article <sljbN5PQA1X9QO2Gb+jwOLl00mmL@4ax.com>,
Brian Inglis  <Brian.dot.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca> wrote:
>OTOH, the US is a large marketplace, with a large enough
>population to be able to ignore educational standards elsewhere,
>as long as parts of that system do a good enough, job to generate
>enough educated people to keep the economy going, or the economy
>attracts enough people to make up for the domestic shortfall. 
>Look at the number of immigrants coming in now on H1B visas. 
>That suggests that domestic education is insufficient to meet
>demands, and other countries can meet the standards requirements.

It suggests that the demand is for programmers who will work 100 hours
a week for $40,000 a year, which are harder to find in Silicon Valley
than they used to be.

Immigrants on H1B visas are essentially at the mercy of their
employer.  If they get fired or quit, they often have to go back to
their country of origin within a few weeks -- even if they find a new
employer, they must file a lot of paperwork very quickly, and if they
have delays with the INS, they are SOL.

Therefore, immigrants on H1B visas can be very pliant employees.
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<kragen@pobox.com>       Kragen Sitaker     <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/>
Tue Sep 14 1999
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