[ale] H1B -- What To Do

[cfowler]

protective tariffs

On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 07:49, Malcolm Silberman wrote:
> There is another dynamic coming into play that you should be aware of. Tons
> of projects are being shipped off-shore. As an example we get our coding
> done in India from anywhere between $10 to $30 per hour. On this side the
> skill set required is not hard-core programmers but rather integration
> experts, project managers and the like.
> 
> The quality of the work is often quite high, and as good as I have
> encountered here in the US. The projects all seem to come in at or under
> budget and clients are satisfied. The biggest challenge is in the same old
> project management issues we have always faced. Technologies such as chat,
> forums, bug tracking all make this type of development model fairy workable.
> 
> Whether H1B's are disappearing or not - factor this often unseen dynamic on
> the developer economy. There is little that government imposition can do,
> and retraining in core languages may not be the approach to take. However,
> opportunities at a co-ordination and control level seem to be relevant.
> (Obviously a core understanding of software languages is still needed).
> 
> Malcolm
> 
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