Does it though? Prior discussions on this made me aware that H1B is mostly not profitable for the consulting firms. It’s the offshore work where they can severely underpay. So long as a US company can get offshore workers via the consulting firms (their preferred business model), all is well.
But ya, we don’t need to import someone doing JavaScript over to America anymore (which, believe it or not, is what I’ve witnessed). There’s no rhyme or reason to it, we have a solid home grown talent pool for that.
A lot of full stack web dev work can be saturated by Americans because there’s enough people crossing industries to take it on.
I’ll let the other types of developers chime in on what kind of shortage they are seeing, because I see zero in web development. It’s nothing personal to my immigrant friends, but believe it or not our industry is pretty crowded at the moment to justify opening up to foreign workers. We can easily drive prices down amongst ourselves at the rate we’re going at.
I support this policy through and through, and I’m a Democrat.
> But ya, we don’t need to import someone doing JavaScript over to America anymore (which, believe it or not, is what I’ve witnessed). There’s no rhyme or reason to it, we have a solid home grown talent pool for that.
Being able to program language X isn't really the marketable skillset at the high level. You don't hire good javascript programmers. You hire good programmers
You know other countries also have multi million dollar companies too. At scale, I don’t ever see them importing American talent because ‘no one else can do it in our country’. It’s just pure bullshit, there’s 300+ million people across a lot of these countries. At scale, the talent is there, in every country.
Unfortunately I think there are a lot of people who know the technology to some limited degree to do some tasks, but indeed cannot really program. They do testing or something, running scripts and needing a lot of supervision.
But ya, we don’t need to import someone doing JavaScript over to America anymore (which, believe it or not, is what I’ve witnessed). There’s no rhyme or reason to it, we have a solid home grown talent pool for that.
A lot of full stack web dev work can be saturated by Americans because there’s enough people crossing industries to take it on.
I’ll let the other types of developers chime in on what kind of shortage they are seeing, because I see zero in web development. It’s nothing personal to my immigrant friends, but believe it or not our industry is pretty crowded at the moment to justify opening up to foreign workers. We can easily drive prices down amongst ourselves at the rate we’re going at.
I support this policy through and through, and I’m a Democrat.