One of the major reason is that jobs in this area are going to India and China. I worked for a large fortune 500 company. I am an American born citizen. More than half of our team was located in India and China. When contracts were bid, American companies were not even allowed to bid on the projects. I experienced active discrimation from my manager from India. I received less interesting jobs and less pay than the Indian counterparts in my group. I was also told by HR that it was OK to discrimate against non-minorities. Or another way of saying this: You will experience the same thing in the real world that you are experiencing in graduate school in the engineering and computer science areas.
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One of the major reason is that jobs in this area are going to India and China. I worked for a large fortune 500 company. I am an American born citizen. More than half of our team was located in India and China. When contracts were bid, American companies were not even allowed to bid on the projects. I experienced active discrimation from my manager from India. I received less interesting jobs and less pay than the Indian counterparts in my group. I was also told by HR that it was OK to discrimate against non-minorities. Or another way of saying this: You will experience the same thing in the real world that you are experiencing in graduate school in the engineering and computer science areas.