[lbo-talk] Bill Gates in aid of Indian techies

[ravi]

On 04/29/05 23:08, Lance Murdoch wrote:
> 
> The H1B visa supposedly is only for people who have skills which can't
> be found in the United States.
> 
> I worked at a Fortune 100 financial company and was friendly with a
> Chinese fellow here on an H1B visa.  He told me he had never even seen
> a computer until he came to the United States.
> 

i do not know about china -- though your experience does not match any
of the chinese IT professionals i have worked with in the last 13 years
in the US -- but though there is some abuse of the H1B program, in my
experience, especially in the late 90s, it did bring in people for jobs
that could not be filled with local talent (this, afaict, has nothing to
do with the difficulty of the jobs, but more to do with the rapid growth
of demand during the bubble). part of my experience comes not just from
my knowledge of non-USers i worked with, but also my experience trying
to hire people for IT jobs.

	--ravi