I know where your local government put some of the money they collect. They spend over a BILLION dollars outsourcing their IT department to outsourcers who promptly import HB1 workers to dork around with expensive off-the-shelf software full of glitches. These outsources, as usual, always overpromise and under-deliver. Your tax dollars at work – same as it ever was. I love the topic of outsourcing….
Ohhh please.. Stop complaining about losing "our" jobs overseas to some H1-b holders. If you're skills are top notch their's absolutely no reason why you should be having a problem finding good work at great pay. If you're job is being outsourced, chances are you need to either (1) update your skills (2) switch into another profession or (3) switch to another company that's more in touch with the reality that only a small percentage of outsourcing actually really works in the long run. The reason why my company is hiring some h1-b's is because WE CAN'T FIND QUALIFIED people. For example, computer "programmers" that know just a language are dime a dozen. I've reviewed/interviewed a bunch of candidates that all say they "know C++, Java,C, perl etc", but then when I ask them to design a simple college grad question like a simply message queuing system, they can't do it. …But but but… They're MSFT certified, Java Certified, C++ certified….Right?…….That must mean something..Sorry, I have to say that when I see a resume that has the little Java/Msft certification logo on it, it immediately turns me off. Why? Because to be certified Java "programmer", you only need to have pass their test with 60% rate. You could guess on half the test and only know the remaining 10percent to be "certified". Besides, most companies these days don't need people that are language experts…Crap code generation tools can do a better job than hackers. And we're not exactly just porting code from one language to another. Even if we were, we WOULD outsource that to some place in india/china because it's pretty mechanical and would be dirt cheap… OR we would hire a college intern that could do that. We have basically opened development centers overseas because frankly those folks skills are top notch. And in terms of cost, hiring people in Banglore isn't exactly cheap anymore either, even in terms of U.S. dollars. Paying someone good in India is closer to $50-75/hour but is much more resonable than paying someone like $100/hr here who can't even write a simple hello world program.
