The Internet and IT revolution has been an American contribution to the world. From IBM and Mainframe computing, evolution of the UNIX operating system, Relational Databases, Desktop computing and Java.
Every single one of them is an American invention, born, bred and nurtured here in the USA
Sadly, we will never see such a revolution in technology anymore. Never, ever again.
Anerican students no longer want to pursue higher education in the sciences, notably computer science.
There's simply no financial future in an IT career.
Salaries are cheap, capped and pressured down by Indian H-1Bs. There's absolutely no career path.
Which parent would spend 200,000 for a 4-year CS degree so their kid could toil 60-hour weeks for 60,000 per year ?
Indian students complete a CS degree (if you can call those paper mills a university or a college) for $600 (with living expenses to included !!)
They make excellent ROI coming here on an H-1B for $48,000 per annum.
Fewer students enrolled in undergraduate courses simply means, much fewer post-graduate students, which trickles to even fewer PhD candidates.
Which will snowball to an understaffed and underpaid faculty.
Even if it's cheaper to get an Indian H-1B.
What are you people doing to this country ?
What are you leaving our children with ?
Think about it !!
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
An Embellished Resume
http://fsbfeatures.blogs.fsb.cnn.com/2007/09/25/should-the-us-grant-more-h-1b-visas/
In short: Absolutely not. Both my wife and I have over 40 years combined experience in the IT arena, and we’ve worked as developers, project managers, team leads, DBAs, business analysts. We have never seen such utter lack of competence in the IT world since the onslaught of cheap Indian labor in the late 90’s and right after the Y2K crisis.
Many of these Indian H1B developers’ resumes are filled with outright lies; they regularly claim they have certification and experience orders of magnitude above what they actually have; and worst of all, in many cases, they are literally impossible to understand because of language difficulties, making project work a nightmare.
Most of this is cultural, unfortunately: In India, Pakistan, and China, there is no concept of intellectual property, and there is also massive corruption that influences everyday life. So it’s totally acceptable to embellish by 20% or 50% because everyone else around you is doing it.
Put that same person in an American setting, and the lack of coding quality, understanding of simple American and European business principles, and - most importantly - the ability to act intuitively without any direct management simply evaporates.
The reason for this mess, pure and simple: After Y2K, contractors were charging outrageously high rates for coding and development, and IT departments were reeling from those costs. Rather than solve the problem - hiring only the best workers, training the substandard ones to become better, and simply flushing the rest - the Indians showed up with promises of being able to do the work for 20% of the cost. American CFOs and freshly-minted MBAs saw this as a chance to regain control of these costs, figuring that even if the offshored resource screws it up four times, they were still ahead of the game in terms of cost.
What needs to happen, unfortuately, is a major disaster, either from a security / data loss standpoint, or the loss of a major center of Indian computing. (After all, Pakistan hates India, and vice versa … and they both do have nuclear weapons, right?) And then it’s time to call all the junior MBAs on the carpet and start rolling heads down the hallway. I have a bevy of American friends who understand how to benefit from this … and we’re just waiting for the show to start. Keep watching - it’s gonna be an interesting end to this decade!
In short: Absolutely not. Both my wife and I have over 40 years combined experience in the IT arena, and we’ve worked as developers, project managers, team leads, DBAs, business analysts. We have never seen such utter lack of competence in the IT world since the onslaught of cheap Indian labor in the late 90’s and right after the Y2K crisis.
Many of these Indian H1B developers’ resumes are filled with outright lies; they regularly claim they have certification and experience orders of magnitude above what they actually have; and worst of all, in many cases, they are literally impossible to understand because of language difficulties, making project work a nightmare.
Most of this is cultural, unfortunately: In India, Pakistan, and China, there is no concept of intellectual property, and there is also massive corruption that influences everyday life. So it’s totally acceptable to embellish by 20% or 50% because everyone else around you is doing it.
Put that same person in an American setting, and the lack of coding quality, understanding of simple American and European business principles, and - most importantly - the ability to act intuitively without any direct management simply evaporates.
The reason for this mess, pure and simple: After Y2K, contractors were charging outrageously high rates for coding and development, and IT departments were reeling from those costs. Rather than solve the problem - hiring only the best workers, training the substandard ones to become better, and simply flushing the rest - the Indians showed up with promises of being able to do the work for 20% of the cost. American CFOs and freshly-minted MBAs saw this as a chance to regain control of these costs, figuring that even if the offshored resource screws it up four times, they were still ahead of the game in terms of cost.
What needs to happen, unfortuately, is a major disaster, either from a security / data loss standpoint, or the loss of a major center of Indian computing. (After all, Pakistan hates India, and vice versa … and they both do have nuclear weapons, right?) And then it’s time to call all the junior MBAs on the carpet and start rolling heads down the hallway. I have a bevy of American friends who understand how to benefit from this … and we’re just waiting for the show to start. Keep watching - it’s gonna be an interesting end to this decade!
In this country, as long as you can lie
I was having lunch with P and A the other day. Both were SAP professionals.
"A" has just been here for 2 years, he's currently on his H-1B.
I have worked with both of them for 3 months when this conversation occured.
"A" was not too impressive, he talks way too much in SAP and IT jargons - he almost seems like an insecure brat who seems to be trying way too hard to make himself 'misunderstood' sometimes hoping and trying to get everyone to not understand him, lest he does not have to explain himself in further detail and also so he gets to hang around projects for as long as possible.
It was amazing how the conversation went
"P" mentioned that a friend of his just resigned from a large consulting firm to be an independent contractor. According to "P", the rate was a whopping USD220 per hour as a consultant in the HR (Human Resources) module within SAP
"A" eyes immediatey lit up. He was asking about the location, company, project duration.
I could not help myself. I had to cut in, "But you are not an HR consultant !?", I chimed in.
"A" turned and look at me, quite indignantly he looked at me, almost like I was an annoying moron and said, "In the US, as long as you can talk and lie, you can land an IT job, all you need is a fake resume"
I was nonetheless shocked and flabbergasted at the response. But playing the role of the uninitiated, I had to feign innocence and quickly phrase my next question, "But how do you get pass the interview ?"
Holding my breath, as I waited for him to choke and realise that his attempt of lying and faking will not work.
His reply almost floored me.
"Look here", 'A' quickly shot back, "Most interviews are conducted by phone anyways, when you go for an interview, you write those questions down. You collect those questions and read up on them. Sure, you may fail the first interview and maybe the second interview"
"By the time you answered the phone for the tenth interview, you would have written down enough interview questions to get you through", he looked at me again. "Don't tell me you are that stupid"
So, it was a superb modus operandi, from writing fake resumes to writing interview questions down and studying for it over and over again.
Once again, another Indian H-1B trash.
"A" has just been here for 2 years, he's currently on his H-1B.
I have worked with both of them for 3 months when this conversation occured.
"A" was not too impressive, he talks way too much in SAP and IT jargons - he almost seems like an insecure brat who seems to be trying way too hard to make himself 'misunderstood' sometimes hoping and trying to get everyone to not understand him, lest he does not have to explain himself in further detail and also so he gets to hang around projects for as long as possible.
It was amazing how the conversation went
"P" mentioned that a friend of his just resigned from a large consulting firm to be an independent contractor. According to "P", the rate was a whopping USD220 per hour as a consultant in the HR (Human Resources) module within SAP
"A" eyes immediatey lit up. He was asking about the location, company, project duration.
I could not help myself. I had to cut in, "But you are not an HR consultant !?", I chimed in.
"A" turned and look at me, quite indignantly he looked at me, almost like I was an annoying moron and said, "In the US, as long as you can talk and lie, you can land an IT job, all you need is a fake resume"
I was nonetheless shocked and flabbergasted at the response. But playing the role of the uninitiated, I had to feign innocence and quickly phrase my next question, "But how do you get pass the interview ?"
Holding my breath, as I waited for him to choke and realise that his attempt of lying and faking will not work.
His reply almost floored me.
"Look here", 'A' quickly shot back, "Most interviews are conducted by phone anyways, when you go for an interview, you write those questions down. You collect those questions and read up on them. Sure, you may fail the first interview and maybe the second interview"
"By the time you answered the phone for the tenth interview, you would have written down enough interview questions to get you through", he looked at me again. "Don't tell me you are that stupid"
So, it was a superb modus operandi, from writing fake resumes to writing interview questions down and studying for it over and over again.
Once again, another Indian H-1B trash.
Indian H1B CRAP
I have met far too many Indian IT professionals in the US, and quite frankly 99.99% of them are fakes.
There was this Indian couple who lived above my apartment complex. He was a .NET programmer with a couple of years experience.
HE came back from India one fine day, with a new bride. She was a sweet girl from Bombay. According to her, she had just completed her Engineering degree. She had not worked a day of her life.
Within 2 years, she enrolled herself at a local community college and basicaly drilled herself daily to an MCSE certification.
She then got an Indian body-shop (her husband's company) to petition for her H-1B.
Together they faked her entire resume. Used her husband's resume and faked a bunch of credentials and work experience to land her first job.
When I asked nonchalantly, how did she land this job. With a straightface, both answered - "Just fake it, that's how it works".
Another Indian H-1B fake.
There was this Indian couple who lived above my apartment complex. He was a .NET programmer with a couple of years experience.
HE came back from India one fine day, with a new bride. She was a sweet girl from Bombay. According to her, she had just completed her Engineering degree. She had not worked a day of her life.
Within 2 years, she enrolled herself at a local community college and basicaly drilled herself daily to an MCSE certification.
She then got an Indian body-shop (her husband's company) to petition for her H-1B.
Together they faked her entire resume. Used her husband's resume and faked a bunch of credentials and work experience to land her first job.
When I asked nonchalantly, how did she land this job. With a straightface, both answered - "Just fake it, that's how it works".
Another Indian H-1B fake.
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