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.
Now your talking heresy! A skills qualification exam for general programming/IT skills? Similar to the licensing exams that a lawyer, engineer, MD/Nurse*, plumber, electrician, hair dresser, barber, and undertaker / funeral home must take?
You must not be from around here! That's blasphemy and heresy for both the Cathedral and the Bazaar! Talk like that might encourage things such as Standards, and Organization, and... Common Sense! Arrugg. grab your tin-foil hats and run for the hills!
What? You mean all these slashdot liberals don't want to be part of a union? I thought they liked unions. That's very republican of them to be so against unions.
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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Now your talking heresy! A skills qualification exam for general programming/IT skills? Similar to the licensing exams that a lawyer, engineer, MD/Nurse*, plumber, electrician, hair dresser, barber, and undertaker / funeral home must take?
You must not be from around here! That's blasphemy and heresy for both the Cathedral and the Bazaar! Talk like that might encourage things such as Standards, and Organization, and... Common Sense! Arrugg. grab your tin-foil hats and run for the hills!
* Note: Most nurs
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What? You mean all these slashdot liberals don't want to be part of a union? I thought they liked unions. That's very republican of them to be so against unions.