Microsoft Wants End to Limits on Overseas Hiring – from TBO.com — I seriously do not understand what they are thinking at Microsoft to make these sorts of public comments. Ballmer said something like this some months back and I emailed him about it and he was baffled by my email. They apparently do not see any of this as a “hot potato” issue that can have negative implications on sales. This is total isolation from reality. In this case Gates has physically gone to Washington to go door-to-door on this issue.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates urged the Bush administration and lawmakers Wednesday to abolish immigration limits on foreign engineers who can be hired by U.S. companies, a sensitive subject among American technology workers watching their own jobs increasingly move overseas.
Too add insult to injury regarding unemployed USA coders, Gates said they are obviously no good.
“Anybody who’s got good computer science training, they are not out there unemployed,” Gates said. “We’re just not seeing an available labor pool.”
I guess that’s true insofar as young hotshot coders who will work cheap. In the early days of Microsoft one of the earmarks insofar as getting hired was Gates desire to get employees to take a cut in pay to work there — to prove they wanted to work there. This paid off for early employees when the stock was flying high. Then the company went into the practice of hiring supposed contractors who actually worked for the company full-time, but were not paid the same as others and had no benefits. The company was sued over its labor practices. This is just the latest phase of evolving corporate policies, an overall effort to get rid of pesky American locals. It would make more sense if the company wasn’t banking a billion a month. Why be so cheap?
what planet are you guys from?
Mith: Earth is flat
Fact: it’s not flat
Mith: Me poor american not finding job.
Fact: you are a lazy ass, stop reading this comment and work on your resume, read, learn to improve yourself !!!!
Mith: H1b Workers are Cheap
Fact: company must pay the equivalent wage as a us emplyee (trust me everybody looks at MS, count in governement, sun, oracle, ….) Company must pay 1500$ fee that goes into training fund (or bombs for irak)
Mith: I am a good programmer and I can’t find a job
Fact: You are not good enough, get your act together and learn, technology advances you have to continuously adapt, if you want somebody else to pay for that, do not vote bush next time you vote.
Mith: there is a conmspiracy against the honest american worker
Fact: The only thing that exists here is capitalism in a globalization process (early, more will come).
MIth: Me poor american not finding job
Fact: you are hopeless, still reading this comment ? the local burger king is hiring, might be a good oportunity for you
“With only 53,000 engineering graduates a year compared to Russia’s 200,000,”
200,000 Chernobyl engineers a year – sounds like what Microsoft wants.
I am a foreigner in your country but I’ll probably fk off back to europe sooner or later. The Microsofties will stay here and bring their parents and their uncles from the 3rd world. Guess who is going to pay for their welfare.
Funny thing is the slanted eyed Americanos all want BMW’s.
“Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore
New York, Boston and Baltimore
They’ll take you right down where you don’t want to go
If you talk too fast and you walk too slow
Shanghaid, Shanghaid
Been locked up and Shanghaid
Shanghaid, Shanghaid
Been locked up and Shanghaid
I tried to live by the golden rule
Do unto others and they’ll do unto you
Every time I get turned on I end up singing the same song
Shanghaid, Shanghaid
Been locked up and Shanghaid
Shanghaid, Shanghaid
Been locked up and Shanghaid
I was crossing the desert on a sunny day
I met two women that passed my way
They took me to a tent and they locked the door And all they
ever said was “More, more”
Shanghaid, Shanghaid
Been locked up and Shanghaid
Shanghaid, Shanghaid
Been locked up and Shanghaid
And I’m standing right here with my usual slack
Police got me for talking back
“You’re out on the street, you’d better watch your step
If you talk too loud, now button your lip”
Shanghaid, Shanghaid
Been locked up and Shanghaid
Shanghaid, Shanghaid
Been locked up and Shanghaid
Sitting in a bar in West Berlin
Sipping on a glass that’s low again
Talking to a woman I thought I knew
The lights went out and I did too
Shanghaid, Shanghaid
Been locked up and Shanghaid
Shanghaid, Shanghaid
Been locked up and Shanghaid”
Hi all
I am an H1-b employee. I got my graduate degree in US and am struggling to find a decent job because of my status. Everytime I find a decent ad for a job, it says “Do not sponsor H1b”. So the only jobs out there are jobs which the US citizens dont go for – menial programming jobs. I am wondering how many US citizens with a masters degree in CS are unemployed out there.
Even when I get employed, I know I wont get a good pay as my american counterparts do because of my status. So my visa status dictates my life in this country. It renders me a second class citizen (slave?).
So thats my two cents !
thanks
I trained my H1-B and all I got was this pink slip
I support Gates! What he said was right. International students are more qualified for IT jobs, becuase they work harder and smarter.They will spent their spare time to study a new technology instead of going to parties.
H1-B limits should be delimited!
According to government studies, wages at MS are flat if not declining – not indicitive of a shortage in which wages would be rising. What’s even more frightening is the continued insistance by MS, Intel, Dupont and others that there is shortage – and now even the politicians believe the lie anymore. As declining wages and short careers caussed by H1B cheap help, scare smart American kids out of tech, Gates and company are looking stuped, dangerous and insulting. Sadly gates and company are peddleing “intellectual crack” to the American public: we need to invest our time in money in legitimate technogical R&D – not prevayors of 30yo+ technology. The politicians are showing their stupidy on this one. The Democrats had better clean up their act and stop insulting American kids – there are other waiting in the aisle who will get the job done!
Saw few comments from my american brothers and sisters 🙂
I always like the ‘We american’ . term btw do any of you ‘American’ has grand grandfather details ( chances are very less as the country was a jungle and full of tribes before the Britons came around 400-500 yrs back ) ask your origin. Its a country of immigrants and is closed to world. Why you are shouting like a caged primate when you are seeing the world outside . Open up and learn to ‘Truely’ appreciate others.
If not…help u r self..lots more will come :-0)
The H1B cap is a mythical number. There have been recent newspaper articles that point out the cap is NOT being enforced. No one is counting. It has become just another way to get an endless supply of cheap laborers in our country along with open borders and unenforced illegal immigrant hiring laws.
The business owners are selling out the country for the dollar. The politicians are selling out the country for perceived votes. These are all short term gains.
The middle class is rapidly disappearing in America.
Unless affected parties do some serious work, this situation will not change. With most of your comments being over 2 yrs old you need to stimulate interest and rally the troops,. You need to publish more up to date info. Most of the country is not aware, and no one will take up the fight unless there is a vocal constituancy which makes it known that it has a grievance.
Will the last American out of IT please turn out the lights.
We did this at Microsoft even back in the 1990’s; run adds, get citizen applicants, then disqualify them. Not only were h1-b visa employees cheaper but they were good seed for staring research centers in India and China which we now have.
The nitpicking we did on resumes and in interviews sparked a trend of interview trivia in the industry. If IT were dentistry, for example, you would be rejecting applicants for not having drilled a particular tooth at a particular angle.
The fictitious crap my colleagues and I were instructed by our superiors to write ended up with the government as justification to omit citizen applicants. It was also used by our corporate officers (and those of other companies) to lobby congress to lift H1-b visa quotas and even to get rid of quotas entirely. It was also used to accuse our domestic universities of producing inferior graduates (I myself wrote in several such filings that specific courses given in, say, Madras India, were absent in the curriculum given to American citizens in domestic universities when in fact that difference was relevant only as a hook for me to harp on as grounds for disqualifying the citizen applicants).
I was young and stupid, and had lots of friends from abroad…which is where I was from anyway. To me I was looking out for my friends, and my superiors knew that I would. Its only now, when I see American citizens dying abroad in wars that I wonder if I disqualified any of them, and now they are shot in half or maimed while those here loyal only to the mighty dollar have a nice office in peaceful Redmond.
It is one of the worst things I have ever been party to in my entire life. I manage my guilt these days by attending and auditing at universities across the USA, advising computer science students of the reality awaiting them. Thankfully, I have turned dozens away from this corrupt field.
To: Bill Gates
How can you tell Congress how concerned you are over the fact that a large percentage of United States high school students never graduate and then open up our borders for “international” students and workers to enter the country and take jobs. Bill, you and Melinda can’t be philanthropists on one hand and thieves on the other. You may be giving money to charity, but you are stealing American jobs from American workers.