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re: One guy's view on H1-B visas

dittohead — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:47:20 GMT

uber1024 is the biggest dork, retard in this country.

You are being Anti-american by not hiring american people.

You deliberately go out of your way to make american people look stupid so you can hire Indian H1bs.

You are happy because you are a manager! But wait!

H1Bs when they become citizens are not going to work as a slave for you! In the future they will become managers.

You are thinking about only yourself... white man!!

White man;; says... As long as I am on top, I don't care if I have a 1000 slaves work for me!

However, in 20 30 years.. when americans can't find jobs because of people like you. Indians will be managers and your sons (white dudes) will work for them (may be) or they won't be able to find jobs.. because americans are "retards" remember.

H1bs will go for more H1bs.

So where does that leave Americans ... NoWHERE!

Stop being Anti-American.

Someone said it perfectly right.

If you want to do business in America you must give preferance to American people.. don't just act like you tried and go for H1bs.

I can't agree more with the above post "UNEMPLOYED AMERICAN IN CLEAVELAND WITH EE DEGREE"

Hey dude, I 'm in the same boat and I'm in the Silicon Valley and I'm Indian born here!!

I'm an electrical Engineer and I have applied for 70 jobs and not one interview .. not even a phone interview.

Yet my cousins who nonchalantly come here to study master's in EE, lands a kick ass job in Nvidia and now Cadence no problem.

He hasn't even finished yet!! The company is getting him an H1B in place of his student Visa.

THIS CAN ONLY HAPPEN IN AMERICA FOLKS!!!

re: One guy's view on H1-B visas

Unemployed American Electrical Engineer in Cleveland — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:15:14 GMT

Okay now I have a question for all of you experts.

I was born and raised in Cleveland. I have an electrical engineering degree yet I can not convince employers to give me an interview. At first I thought maybe my resume and experience was bad, but I have gone to three separate resume and job hunting workshops. According to them my resume and experience are good. Very few problems on my resume but I made the changes. I still can not get interviews, in or out of Cleveland.

Not too long I talked to an engineering manager. She is Mexican, not sure of her citizenship status. She had talked about her company had hired a Korean and Venezuelan as engineers. One was away at college.

Oh my God, I have tried for years to get an job at this place. Here I am, sitting with 4 1/2 years of Design Engineer experience and 1 year of Electronic Technician experience. I get passed over by students--students that are not American citizens.

So I ask anyone, how is this possible? Do companies get government subsidies to sponsor VISA workers? I tell them I will work at entry level pay.

It baffles me that an employer will not at least interview me, since I have experience and the good college degree. I fail to understand why employers find reasons to disqualify me and end up hiring far less experienced people that are not American citizens. What is going on?!

re: One guy's view on H1-B visas

Shashank — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:50:51 GMT

For the people who think Indians are Copy and Paste developers, I request them to visit some development centers in India. These development Centers have been setup by American companies. Everything ,right from development to test , is being carried out in India. And What they do in America? They test it once and put it on production environments. If Indian developers are craps then how do they pass the interviews which are taken by Americans?.

Although on lower wages, it's a talent that being recruited worldwide, irrespective of job location and nationality. No manager wants to put his life in burden, only because his subordinates doesn't perform well..

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re: One guy's view on H1-B visas

uber1024 — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:14:34 GMT

Not sure where everyone automatically assumes I'm talking about Indian developers here. Truth be told, the people I was thinking about are Brazilian.

re: One guy's view on H1-B visas

jkojs — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:09:36 GMT

Indian H1B programmers are not involved in any of the complex programming tasks whether it is Compilers, Debbuggers, Assemblers, Open source projects, Frameworks, Automation Tools etc. I bet 95% of them are just 'Copy and Paste' coders. This shows they have no passion and they are just in it make quick buck. They have no clue of their projects.

Afterall, most of the software is invented from the 'basements or garages' of the Western households (eg- Google).

As someone pointed out , Indians 'need to code' (just for only money) whereas Western Programmers 'want to code' (both Passion and money). This is why Indian code smells bad and has to be again re-coded at the later stage by the non-Indian programmers hence defeating the main purpose of the 'cheap and profitable' IT oursourcing.

The Wall Street will repent in the future regarding the pitfalls of the IT industry outsourcing to India.

re: Linking 64-bit SQL2k5 to 32-bit SQL2k ... or, How to Avoid Wasting 10 Days Waiting For Straight Answers

Kuljeet Singh — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:56:31 GMT

While the resolution offered in this blog may help to suppress the error; it's not the fixing the root-cause.

The issue is caused due to the fact that the system databases are not properly updated on the 32-bit platform and thus one needs to manually update the databases. This then creates the "sp_tables_info_rowset_64" SP which is not the same as the "sp_tables_info_rowset" SP as there are some subtle differences.

Do refer to the original KB article (support.microsoft.com/.../en-us) and

re: One guy's view on H1-B visas

Zoolander — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:27:26 GMT

To Edgy555,

This is what continues to amaze me.....you (and your fellow ideologues) are accusing Bill Gates of being "greedy"? This is a man who has given away $40 billion of his personal wealth over the last 7 years to charity mostly to causes such as minority education, improving the school system etc. He is also giving away the remaining wealth from his and Warren Buffet's fortune to 3rd world causes. And you accuse this man of greed? How silly is that? He is giving away billions of $ to save a few millions from H1b? (assuming your argument is true)

This is a man - and I am NOT a big fan of MS software - who has done more for helping the US education and underprivileged than anyone else in history. He is a philanthropy for the ages. How many $100 billion companies have you run? Who would you think have a better perspective for the situation? You or the people who run MS, Oracle, IBM etc. There are a few corp. leaders who are unsavory, but the vast majority of people running the F-500 companies are ethical, patriotic, and have the best interests of the nation at heart. Lose that sanctimonious holier-than-thou halo on your head and do not fall for the Lou "cheapshot" Dobbs line. He is the modern day McCarthy - he is getting a power trip from his rants and adulation of people like you.

The only thing Lou Dobbs cares about it is his gargantuan ego and his audience keeps massaging it while he plays up to their base instincts (a la his big brother Bill O'reilly)

Think rationally here, I am sure you can do better than that.

Also, if you feel so strongly about it,. Why don't you start your own company and show everyone how to be a "noble, benevolent, patriotic" CEO? Build the next Google or MS doing the things you suggest - never hire an H1b, do not outsource a single job, pay all your engineers 200K, and all that....Then and only then would your arguments would hold some water.

An example is worth a million rants. Until then your "cheap labor" points sound like that of a cult member brainwashed by the Lou Dobbs cult.

re: One guy's view on H1-B visas

Edgy555 — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:19:36 GMT

While I appreciate the thoughfulness of the essay, I disagree strongly on nearly every point made. Here's my position: the H1-B program distorts the US market for technology. Why do you think US-born students are not choosing to study engineering? The long hours? The relatively low pay? The lay-offs? The outsourcing? All of the above. Why study computer science when you could get a law degree?

It would be one thing if the entire world were free-market. If firms in India had to compete for talent against firms in the UK, US or Canada, but that's not the way it is. Firms in India pay exceptionally low wages and basically export their employees to the US. Don't believe me? Why are 4-5 of the top H1-B visa sponsors from India?

Finally, there's a very simple answer to the reasons why people like Mr. Gates and Mr. Ellison are pushing for more H-1Bs -- money. The fact is (and this is backed up by some fairly prominent economists) that H1-B visas depress the wages of technology workers in the US. Mr. Gates, Mr. Ellison and uber1024's company don't want to pay, so they support a fairly broad system of low-cost imported labor.