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To: sandeep who wrote (11700)	3/28/2006 2:47:45 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19790

What are you talking about? Average salary for a fresh CS undergraduate is $75K + a WHOLE lot of benefits in software companies today. This is not chump change. Very few other professions pay that much. You and Lizzie should name one! What are you talking about? MSFT move to India to get software engineers with MS for $12,000.00 per year. What are you talking about?

To: sandeep who wrote (11700)	3/28/2006 2:48:05 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19790

Sandeep I don't know what you are talking about. I come from software. Software has been offshored. Thats why the drop in graduates. Software was nothing like this in the early 90s when I went into it. Now, if you get hired at a big company for software in the US, I can almost guarantee your role is to "manage an offshore team". then its management and not R&D, and besides, who wants a job like that anyway. Thats why Bill G wants these visas, and Congress isn't really jumping on it. Besides theres a whole other issue as to the R&D that these companies are exploiting and whether that should be offshored by these executives anyway. SIRF has offshore R&D working on GPS. GPS was a US government funded invention. This is unacceptable. The tech industry pushed for these visas for years and congress rolled over but now they aren't even though I would argue that this is the most special-interest friendly "bought and paid for" government in my history. Bill G is pushing hard and it is diluting what his focus SHOULD BE. Gates should ask himself this question, when he was at harvard 20 years ago would HE have chosen R&D as a career under the current circumstances? I think not.