Tech Companies Want More Foreign STEM Workers

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amine karame 5:53PM January 19, 2012

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amine karame 5:51PM January 19, 2012

"Perhaps you should check what percentage of applicants are turned down at the tech companies you mentioned. Microsoft, for example, rejects 99% of its U.S. applicants. "
I wouldn't say that Microsoft 'rejects' these candidates, rather, Microsoft doesn't even bother considering the contents of its resume queues, chock-full of applications from highly qualified US citizens, before turning to cheap foreign nationals.
If Microsoft went through the effort of calling in literally every applicant that possessed a STEM degree for its technical jobs, interviewing them, and rejecting them -- then I'd have no problem whatsoever with H-1B. But Microsoft doesn't even bother giving the 'time of day' to an extremely large number of applicants to its company. Even those who graduated with directly applicable STEM credentials.

Mark of CA 1:05AM January 05, 2012

Wow, these 'News' organizations are STILL shilling for outsourcing visas? Even in a depression they are trying to ship more jobs overseas.

Joe of CA 8:26PM November 02, 2011

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But it is more than just wanting the younger workers. H-1B workers are more desirable even if they cost the same - because they won’t go anywhere - especially if a company who employs them also sponsors them. One advantage is an increase in retention of intellectual property and product knowledge - both of which often means fewer defects and thus cheaper manufacturing costs in the end.
Taking advantage of the H-1B program is good business but at a harsh cost to American workers. The “shortage” claim as an abstract concept isn’t necessarily false; but it is a Red Herring as there is not a shortage of qualified American applicants but rather a surplus.
What it really means is the younger and cheaper workers are harder to find, and as a bonus the H-1B workers are indentured servants. Can we fault Corporate America for wanting to change the job market? Maybe or maybe not, but what we should do is force Corporate America to own up to the truth.

Mark of MN 11:22PM October 27, 2011

I have been a software engineer for over 30 years. I have consulted at over 3 dozen organizations, and I have seen so-called shortages bemoaned to cover up ulterior motives. One obvious one is, as one VP called it, "More bang for the buck." But I discovered it isn't really about cheaper wages.
The biggest myth is the shortage. From what I see from HR and management across the country is not that they have a hard time finding applicants - in fact they have so many resumes hitting their desks - many times more than they had 5 or 10 years ago – that they cannot keep up. So why are they having a hard time finding what they are looking for? Because they want younger engineers.
The trend growing over the last decade is to hire fewer and fewer senior engineers and more junior engineers, and the seniors they hire are top shelf with an eccentric suite of experience and education. If you have more than 10 years of experience, and have not had a distinguished career with an advanced degree or degrees, the likelihood your CV will end up in the infamous File 13 increases exponentially as length of career increases. Applications from senior engineers are flying in like Mayflies during late spring because they were the first to be laid off.
I can say in humble confidence that I am very good at software engineering. I have numerous projects under my belt from some of the most technical, high criticality and high profile projects the planet has ever known. But my career is not distinguished enough. To survive after seeing the writing on the walls years ago, I went back to school to focus on a growing niche: organizational science. I could have gone after computer science, software engineering or even computer engineering. But that wouldn’t be enough to compete. Instead and even though it was traditionally harder to excel in the management career track and ultimately to executive leadership, that is the path I see as most viable for me to sustain my family going forward.
The truth about the shortage is that companies looking for a younger, cheaper and indentured servant crowd - “old people need not apply.” The interesting thing is that research reveals seasoned engineers make far fewer mistakes. Then again, so does junior engineers forced to master their product, or so Corporate America thinks.
So the shortage is not a lack of available American workers or applications by qualified Americans. The shortage is in reality about not enough younger workers to replace the older workers. This trend will only increase exponentially as the baby boomers approach and reach retirement age.
But it is more than just wanting the younger workers. H-1B workers are more desirable even if they cost the same - because they won’t go anywhere - especially if a company who employs them also sponsors them. One advantage is an increase in retention of intellectual property and product knowledge - both of which often means fewer defects and thus cheaper manufactu

Mark of MN 11:17PM October 27, 2011

All information below compiled at http://immigration-weaver.blogspot.com/
From the National Center for Education Statistics
U.S. Citizen and Permanent Resident STEM Related Degrees Conferred 2008 and 2009
Doctorate Degrees: 29,926
Doctorate Degree-Research Scholarship: 10,479
Master's Degrees: 225,776
Bachelor's Degrees: 742,467
Associate's Degrees: 471,346
Total 2008 and 2009: 1,479,994
Of those a total of 152,489 degrees were in Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services:
Doctorate Degrees: 974
Doctorate Degree-Research Scholarship: 423
Master's Degrees: 19,387
Bachelor's Degrees: 73,795
Associate's Degrees: 57,910
Total 2008 and 2009: 152,489
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics - The Occupational Employment Statistics (OES):
Employment gain/loss in occupations with more than 1,000 permanent labor certifications: (100,890) - that's a LOSS of 100,890 jobs in the occupations that have more than 1,000 permanent labor certification applications.
Of those:
Computer Software Engineers (Applications) had 9,854 permanent labor certifications with only a gain of 3,780 jobs from 2009 to 2010
Computer Systems Analysts had 5,695 permanent labor certifications with a LOSS of 16,920 jobs from 2009 to 2010
Computer Software Engineers,Systems Software had 4,038 permanent labor certifications with a LOSS of 6,280 jobs from 2009 to 2010
Computer Programmers had 1,536 permanent labor certifications with a LOSS OF 34,260 JOBS FROM 2009 TO 2010
This absolutely disproves that there is a labor shortage.
The website I mentioned above has a lot more eye-opening information you really need to look at.

Vincenzo of NY 9:28PM October 27, 2011

Kids from Purdue and Carnegie-Mellon cannot get engineering jobs.
Why? So please tell this individual exactly what is being taught in India that American colleges are not teaching. It appears to me there is vast corruption at the university level. This must be taken up by the FBI and the Department of Justice immediately. If colleges are operating like a business, they do not need 501(c)3 status

Tom Huber of NJ 9:22PM October 25, 2011

To echo the comments of "Scott Short of IL" I'd further point out that if Americans are so incompetent we can't somehow do the job, how is it foreign nationals can? Often they attend American universities and sit right along side American born students. Those foreign students on OPT visas then are hired here in America on an H-1B visa. This is common knowledge in the IT industry and secret to no one, except for writers.
So the question must be asked how can those foreign workers be hired, under the implication Americans are incompetent because "competent" American workers "are not available", when they receive the same education as American students? Wouldn't that then likewise make them incompetent?
Or is the a another agenda at work, a hidden agenda?
The fact is foreign workers are hired on H-1B visas because those people, coming from 3rd world countries where the Caste System still lives on today, make for cheap/docile labor. This also is the dirty little secret of the IT industry.
And let us not pretend we are shocked, after all Alan Greenspan talked about lowering American labor rates and the video remains today on YouTube. And then there's the Cohen & Grisby legal firm who offered training in how to "not hire an American". Their own videos leaked out and made their way to the Internet.
The fact is transnational corporations operating in America are addicted to cheap/docile labor which they find outside the U.S. To that end they outsource work and inside the U.S. they replace American workers with cheap/docile foreign labor on NON-IMMIGRANT / TEMPORARY work vises - the H-1B and L1. I remind people of the Siemens Lake Mary Florida incident in 2003 in which American workers were informed they were being laid off and before their job ended their duty consisted of training their replacements. Further, anyone unwilling to train their replacement was IMMEDIATELY discharged without further pay or separation benefits. This too is yet another dirty little secret of the IT industry.
America's high tech industry is overwhelmed with skeletons in the closet, hiding a strategy of displacing American workers for cheaper, more docile foreign workers. This is the main culprit behind rampant age discrimination, yet another dirty little secret of the IT industry.

AccuracyIT of IL 2:29PM October 25, 2011