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

Posted by msmash on from the different-perspective dept.

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.

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  1. GoDaddy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    If it's coming from GoDaddy, it can safely be ignored. Fucking shitty company.

  2. Re:The IT shortage in america is a myth. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is some evidence to support the claim that the IT shortage is a myth:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-24/the-tech-worker-shortage-doesnt-really-exist

    http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth

  3. Re:Disney by e3m4n · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dont forget Edison Electric in california... they did the same thing while drawing state and federal subsidies.

  4. Re:The US is screwed by Orgasmatron · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why can't we find the right people here?

    Hmm. Let me think for a second. Oh, here it is:

    I work in NIH funded research and needed a programmer at $45k/yr.

    --
    See that "Preview" button?
  5. Re:I don't see the problem. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hey, if it were ONLY the top of the folks in the fields, I don't think we'd have a problem with it...it is the drones coming over and sucking up the regular jobs there ARE people that can work on here.

    This, exactly this.

    In my team, we have two Indians on F1-OPT visas, who tried to get an H1-B in April. Both did not get selected in the lottery. These guys are newgrads, and very, very mediocre as wel. Definitely not top of the top, more top of the bottom. We had better candidates who were also citizens, but HR decided to hire these two because they are nice and cheap and we should be able to train them ourselves. It's been 18 months and they have yet to become productive.

    H1-B is a farce.

  6. Re:The US is screwed by sinij · · Score: 5, Informative

    As someone who worked on NIH in the past, this is not true. When you write grant application, you can specify salary ranges. They do set caps based on education/experience, but that only applies to researchers. $45k/year if I recall correctly is the lowest bracket, intended for summer internships and such. Someone with PhD and/or 10 years can get up to $120K or so.

    Clearly, someone dropped the ball writing grant application.