The problem is not with the H1-B visa program per se. Nor with the raison d'etre for it.
The root cause of the problem, the loop hole that allows Indian IT companies to ship thousands of ill educated sub-standard programmers to USA is this: USA recognizes all degrees from India as though they are the equivalent of US college degrees. But sayin ALL graduates from St Mary's College of Engineering, Middle of Nowhere, Some State, India are equal to the graduates from UCLA or MIT is just bonkers.
So the assumption here is that all IS universities are better than non-US universities? Because no matter what you are looking at where the degree is from on a new hire, not just the degree.
I mean, take an elite Ivy League school. Is the graduate actually qualified, or did their parents buy the degree? At least with some city college you know the kid earned it. I know of too many parents who bought thier kids diploma from an elite private high school to trust them.
I will go one step over. Most US high school graduates are better educated than most Indian four year degree holders.
Anyone with a degree from an accredited US university, every last one of them, will be better qualified than most H1B applicants from India. If you take out the Indian H1B applicants with a US degree, degrees from the very top Indian colleges (IITs, NITs, BITS and a few more select colleges) rest are worse than our top 10% of high school grads.
All degrees are not equal. That is the problem (Score:5, Interesting)
The root cause of the problem, the loop hole that allows Indian IT companies to ship thousands of ill educated sub-standard programmers to USA is this: USA recognizes all degrees from India as though they are the equivalent of US college degrees. But sayin ALL graduates from St Mary's College of Engineering, Middle of Nowhere, Some State, India are equal to the graduates from UCLA or MIT is just bonkers.
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Re:All degrees are not equal. That is the problem (Score:2)
I mean, take an elite Ivy League school. Is the graduate actually qualified, or did their parents buy the degree? At least with some city college you know the kid earned it. I know of too many parents who bought thier kids diploma from an elite private high school to trust them.
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Anyone with a degree from an accredited US university, every last one of them, will be better qualified than most H1B applicants from India. If you take out the Indian H1B applicants with a US degree, degrees from the very top Indian colleges (IITs, NITs, BITS and a few more select colleges) rest are worse than our top 10% of high school grads.