[quote=no_such_reality][quote=kev374]I’m surprised at all these high salaries considering it is extremely difficult to get a job in Software Engineering right now. A friend of mine has been searching for over 2 months in the Bay Area and hasn’t found anything yet. His skills are in Informatica and MicroStrategy. Another one I know is Sr. Java with 15 years and can’t find anything, a hiring manager mentioned that there were 50 resumes from Indian temp workers (who have creatively circumvented H1b laws) on his desk within a day for 1 open position…that’s where this competition is coming from.
Yea, that’s a game that’s catching on leveraging h-2bs too. You take a guy from India, pay him top of India pay, fly him over, pay per diem him for hotel and food and cut the on shore rate a little bit. The contract house goes from a 20-30% margin to an 70-80% margin and the client sees 20-30%contract rate reduction. One hour a day covers expenses and the rest is gravy. The India person is making $20/hr but shipping it all home and it’s better money and better conditions than working there.
Plus creative resume writing. But no one cares, they’re disposable, if they don’t work out you kick’em out, send them home and bring in indentured servant 156,007 of 1,200,000,009.
Cynical, I’m way too cynical.[/quote]
Sometimes I wonder who the indentured servant is: the one beholden to his/her mortgage and prisoner to the lifestyle or the other who is grabbing his/her chance to improve their economic lot.
These claims always remind me of what I read about the chinese grocer in indonesia paradox: all the locals argue that the chinese grocer is driving them out of business with his low prices. At the same time they argue that he is getting rich at the expense of the locals! And of course, all the locals shop there too.
I forget the name of the author, but the point was that it is always easy for people to resort to tribalism than take a look at the most obvious reason: the chinese grocer is willing to live on lot less margins to build the business than the locals are used to.
Maybe because acknowledging the most obvious reason means that locals have to tune down their lifestyle to be able to compete better. But why would anybody want to do that when there is chance of getting benefit via complaining?
