Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com)

Silicon Valley companies continue to express their concerns about the restrictions on H-1B visa program. The H-1B visa program -- which enables U.S. companies to hire foreign workers -- has become a political lightning rod but remains essential for American companies to hire the technical talent they need to compete on a global scale, said GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving. From his interview on CNBC: "We do not produce enough technically qualified candidates in this country," he said. "You can't take an 18-month training program and produce a machine-learning scientist." Irving was particularly concerned about overseas competition. The American university system is good at training foreign workers for tech jobs, and it is essential that the U.S. government allows them to stay in the country to fulfill U.S. jobs, he said. Otherwise, we train workers from countries like China and India and then send them back to those countries to set up tech ecosystems that compete with Silicon Valley.

Comments

Obviously

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't hire System Engineers for $9 hour so obviously the problem is that there aren't enough System Engineers here.

Re:I don't see the problem.

[Grishnakh]

Maybe you shouldn't let HR make your hiring decisions.

That is an utterly unAmerican thing to say, and quite frankly treasonous. Letting HR make your hiring decisions is a fundamental part of how American corporations work.

Re:Maybe train the American kid first

[JWW]

Well to be honest the concept of binary would complete blow a Gender Studies major's mind....