About 55% of the technical staff at my non-proft appears to be foreign nationals. What concerns me are the non-technical positions folks appear to be getting in on work visa's, (i.e. project management?).
This will sound racist or at the very least xenophobic but..
Some days I don't even notice that I'm one of 5-10 american's in my shop of 120 in a large DC based non-profit.
Other days I get tired of reading through only resumes for H1B visa holders. Many have bachelors degrees in non-technical fields, with a moderately recent technical field masters degree from their home country.
85-90% of the development team of 100 are from out of country. 99% of the QA team. The only teams that are reasonably balanced demographically are the designer and system engineering/admin team (I'm the senior member of the latter).
I've noticed the hours many of the developers and QA staff put in, it's obscene, and not something I would ever consider. I know without a doubt the reason they're willing to do so. It's a highly inefficient system, and results in a mono-culture and group-think in regards to creating solutions to software problems.
As one of the primary decision maker for hiring within my team, I make a conscious effort to fairly employee american citizens, and visa holders.
I noticed that I only see a single CPU package on the slides, yet somehow they can cram 12-cpu cores in there? The highest Xeon E5s I've seen appear to max out at 8cores/16threads. So the only way I can see that happening is if they can somehow get a multi-processor card or dual CPU mulit-cpu die package in there.
Anyone else notice that GE sold their plastics division overseas in 2007 because it was just barely breaking even and the market wasn't expected to grow in 2007-2008.
But it sounds like they had this in the works since 2003? Why are they selling off R&D units? Are they mad?
I do not yet have my B.Sci but am working on getting one from a reputable state school's distance education program. UofMd. University College. They had a true "Computer Science" bachelor's program but I decided to go with the "Computer and Information Sciences" degree, which is about 50% computer science and 50% information science. Classes include network and system administration, C++/Java/OO programming, discrete math, data structures, and your typical electives.
I have spent the last eight or nine years as a system admin/engineer and done a bit of web development freelance, as well as C/C++ programming on my own. I took 2 years of computer science in high school (Yay Pascal!), and feel that I have a well rounded knowledge of programming/networking/operating systems. Do I really need the degree? Not currently, but I feel that it will complement my current skill set as well as bring me up to speed on the theoretical side of computer science.
After I am done, I plan on taking a couple years off then going back to get my masters degree.
Anyone else done similar?
-gft
The answer is, govt doesnt work that way (on the dumpin part). They typically retrain staff they currently have. On the other hand, under the current administration, with the A76 competitive outsourcing push, they are starting to compete federal jobs a bit more against outsourced personnel. But, they still want to maintain a certain percentage fed vs contractors. They still wont't let a fed worker go, they will have to send him to another job within the govt and retrain him for that regardless.
I worked at the same Rockville office for HRSA for about two years. One issue I can forsee is retraining the support staff. 99% of the techs I worked with were Windows centric. I was planning on a rollout of two new Redhat ES3 external DNS boxes and had them setup and ready to go. I got a new job, wrote some basic DNS and Linux docs for the handoff and left. Talked to a friend there and come to find out the IT dept ditched it, went with Microsoft DNS servers (ugh).
Once the force and creation of gravity is understood well a computer/storage medium that manipulates and measures gravitational forces could be used to store data.. Does anyone more learned in physics than I know if gravitational wave propogation is limited to speed of light?
-gft
LOL, That reminds me of a "Klingon Programming" proverb I saw posted somewhere.. "Specifications are for the weak" Perhaps a "Klingon ISA Engineering" proverb list is in order.
From the Lockheed Martin Analog computing link "A picture of a GEDA center showing (from the left) an R-2 unit, two L-2 units, (maybe) an N-2 unit behind the woman, (maybe) two L-1 units and another recording unit between the women."
Yes it would be nice to have it in QT and downloadable.. Yes it has an awesome catch scene at the beginning of the trailer with the still poignant "Peter can't let himself fall for MJ"..
Bottom line, its gonna be a summer blockbuster and we all will pay our 8$+$5 for our X-treme 128oz Turbo Chug and Popcorn flavored butter.;)
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About 55% of the technical staff at my non-proft appears to be foreign nationals. What concerns me are the non-technical positions folks appear to be getting in on work visa's, (i.e. project management?).
I particularly liked the idea to force companies to hire STEM graduates before grabbing an H1B employee.
I just checked and of 133 software engineers at my non-proft, 55% are foreign nationals. I'm not certain how many are H1B vs other means.
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This will sound racist or at the very least xenophobic but..
Some days I don't even notice that I'm one of 5-10 american's in my shop of 120 in a large DC based non-profit.
Other days I get tired of reading through only resumes for H1B visa holders. Many have bachelors degrees in non-technical fields, with a moderately recent technical field masters degree from their home country.
85-90% of the development team of 100 are from out of country. 99% of the QA team. The only teams that are reasonably balanced demographically are the designer and system engineering/admin team (I'm the senior member of the latter).
I've noticed the hours many of the developers and QA staff put in, it's obscene, and not something I would ever consider. I know without a doubt the reason they're willing to do so. It's a highly inefficient system, and results in a mono-culture and group-think in regards to creating solutions to software problems.
As one of the primary decision maker for hiring within my team, I make a conscious effort to fairly employee american citizens, and visa holders.
I noticed that I only see a single CPU package on the slides, yet somehow they can cram 12-cpu cores in there? The highest Xeon E5s I've seen appear to max out at 8cores/16threads. So the only way I can see that happening is if they can somehow get a multi-processor card or dual CPU mulit-cpu die package in there.
Anyone else notice that GE sold their plastics division overseas in 2007 because it was just barely breaking even and the market wasn't expected to grow in 2007-2008. But it sounds like they had this in the works since 2003? Why are they selling off R&D units? Are they mad?
well done. very, very evil
Yeah, I was just about to post this same thing, but I guaranteeI do not yet have my B.Sci but am working on getting one from a reputable state school's distance education program. UofMd. University College. They had a true "Computer Science" bachelor's program but I decided to go with the "Computer and Information Sciences" degree, which is about 50% computer science and 50% information science. Classes include network and system administration, C++/Java/OO programming, discrete math, data structures, and your typical electives.
I have spent the last eight or nine years as a system admin/engineer and done a bit of web development freelance, as well as C/C++ programming on my own. I took 2 years of computer science in high school (Yay Pascal!), and feel that I have a well rounded knowledge of programming/networking/operating systems. Do I really need the degree? Not currently, but I feel that it will complement my current skill set as well as bring me up to speed on the theoretical side of computer science.
After I am done, I plan on taking a couple years off then going back to get my masters degree.
Anyone else done similar? -gft
The answer is, govt doesnt work that way (on the dumpin part). They typically retrain staff they currently have. On the other hand, under the current administration, with the A76 competitive outsourcing push, they are starting to compete federal jobs a bit more against outsourced personnel. But, they still want to maintain a certain percentage fed vs contractors. They still wont't let a fed worker go, they will have to send him to another job within the govt and retrain him for that regardless.
I worked at the same Rockville office for HRSA for about two years. One issue I can forsee is retraining the support staff. 99% of the techs I worked with were Windows centric. I was planning on a rollout of two new Redhat ES3 external DNS boxes and had them setup and ready to go. I got a new job, wrote some basic DNS and Linux docs for the handoff and left. Talked to a friend there and come to find out the IT dept ditched it, went with Microsoft DNS servers (ugh).
Once the force and creation of gravity is understood well a computer/storage medium that manipulates and measures gravitational forces could be used to store data.. Does anyone more learned in physics than I know if gravitational wave propogation is limited to speed of light? -gft
LOL, That reminds me of a "Klingon Programming" proverb I saw posted somewhere.. "Specifications are for the weak" Perhaps a "Klingon ISA Engineering" proverb list is in order.
You forgot to add, "And in turn using that specification to engineer a compatible or better product" :)
From the Lockheed Martin Analog computing link "A picture of a GEDA center showing (from the left) an R-2 unit, two L-2 units, (maybe) an N-2 unit behind the woman, (maybe) two L-1 units and another recording unit between the women."
Yes it would be nice to have it in QT and downloadable.. Yes it has an awesome catch scene at the beginning of the trailer with the still poignant "Peter can't let himself fall for MJ".. Bottom line, its gonna be a summer blockbuster and we all will pay our 8$+$5 for our X-treme 128oz Turbo Chug and Popcorn flavored butter. ;)