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Great. Now make this an actually punitive amount and apply it to all of the big tech companies (who have obviously been doing this for years) and you may start to actually fix this problem.

A hundred thousand CS graduates a year in this country and yet the biggest companies claim they can’t find workers. So they hire people from overseas and pay them some of the highest entry level wages in the nation all the while kids I grew up with in the Midwest, who were coding in junior high, work in factories.

I call bullshit, it’s clearly discrimination

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> hundred thousand CS graduates a year in this country and yet the biggest companies claim they can’t find workers.

I think big tech happy to hire and does hire those CS graduates if they pass interview.

Just give your favored person leetcode easy questions and your non favored person leetcode hard...

Those interviews are designed around favoritism.

Additionally favored people can skip the interview with the right managers approval.

Whe I worked at LinkedIn it was almost 100% Indians on my team and the rest of the department was like 75% non-American.

The chain of command is literally all Indian people except Ryan R.

yes, that's what distinguished FB and Google: to be hired person need to be interviewed by some people outside the team, so they reduce conflict of interests that way and keep some bar of candidate's quality.

I don't think that China is the only one stealing tech from the US. Just like the borders crisis is making apparent that some spies/terrorists/undesirables are getting through. In due time and with enough research it will be public that spies/thieves/undesirables get through via legal channels. With the amount of access that these highly educated so called quintessential tech workers which surely cannot be found at America's top notch universities have, surely there are a few bad apples. Just gotta run the comb through.

There are only a few tech niches where these companies truly cannot find talent, most projects could surely be accomplished by local graduates. That narrative doesn't pad the pockets of the CEO's though.

Max(A U B) >= Max(A)

Similarly the top x% of both local and international are stronger than the top x% of local candidates, even if local and international have the same distribution of talent.

> Now make this an actually punitive amount ... and you may start to actually fix this problem.

Seems like there's no real desire to fix this problem - which isn't a new one by any means - otherwise it would already have been done ages ago?

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