[–] charlieknowsbest 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
100% fact. I used to do contract work for AT&T and all of their RF engineers were from India. Their work wasn't anything a moderately intelligent citizen couldn't do. But AT&T owned those visa holders and paid them shit for the hours they put in. Politicians are giving away our country's future for corporations short term profits.
[–] newoldwave 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
And they work cheaper because they're just happy to be here and working on becoming citizens.
[–] RoundWheel 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
This is their primary role - wage suppression. Without this fraud, at a minimum, everyone in tech would be making at least 30% more.
Most of the tech industry have not had wage increases in four decades, after inflation.
[–] Gumbatron 0 points 12 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago
I've seen code written by shitters, not even H1B, this was fully outsourced to India. The code was pathetic, mostly snippets copied off stack exchange posts. They can barely follow instructions but the worst thing is they have zero imagination, they can't comprehend what the system as a while is trying to do and so cannot figure out of what they are doing is right.
In the end, it only seems cheaper. To get software that actually works, you'll either have to get some white programmers to rewrite it or spend orders of magnitude more time and money on shitters.
[–] Pointyball 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
"It only seems cheaper". This is it at its basic form.
[–] watitdew 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
White competent engineer: "Hey this seems like a huge violation of the users' privacy and it's slowing down the network"
Apu: "Yes sir the spy program is complete I made an object to call the object that calls the spy object and another object to decrypt the spy object before the object calling object calls the encryption script."
[–] jamesed ago
The going price for a PHd in Computer Science at a prestigious Indian Universtiy is about $60.000 us Dollars on the streets of Mumbai. And it can be delivered in less than 24 HOURS!!!