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To: LindyBill who wrote (77898)	10/15/2004 7:16:44 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (3) of 793846

LB, At the risk of being unpopular, let me first state I am a software engineer and that my company uses both H1-B programmers and has offices in Bangalore. Too many US programmers learned a languge in the 70's, 80's or 90's and are what I call 'blue-collar engineers'. A lot of our 'programmers' do not even have degrees in Computer Science (a difficult discipline) , but rather take 'business programming' or had one or two courses and moved in from another degree field. Added to that is the lack of professionalism by many of these folks - never updating or advancing themselves. Did anyone expect their 30 year old Cobol skills to help them past Y2K? I am sure there are examples of highly educated experts who have kept up who are layed off - but from my experience they are like the huge number of abortions caused by incest. We pay our H1-B engineers the same scale as US citizens - there is no advantage to hiring them other than that they are available with the right degree's. Do you expect that your Doctor or Lawyer stop learning when they graduate and feel they are owed a job for life? Somehow many of our US & Canadian programmers do. John

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