[ale] What do you guys think about this?

[James S. Cochrane]

No real surprise.  I've worked in environments with a high reliance on 
H1B's, the average skill set for those workers was much lower than you 
would expect from an experienced programmer, but they're cheaper and they 
claim to have whatever latest buzzword technology is required, even if they 
don't understand it.  But they're cheaper, and they don't bother to speak 
up when they see something being done wrong or stupidly, so some managers 
like them.  In my last job, I encountered a 'development team lead' who had 
no real concept of how fork and exec worked with port communications, never 
mind that they were working on a project that involved that (he came to me 
and asked about a process that was using a port, I showed him it was their 
java RMI, he claimed it couldn't be the RMI because that was running on a 
different port).  H1B's are also less likely to complain about 
lower-than-market wages or having to work long hours  (most of us in that 
group were working an average of 60 hours a week, the overall manager 
didn't CARE if his lack of planning meant someone got called at 11pm to 
come in and make a change on an emergency basis, he had the same cavalier 
attitude towards security concerns).

James

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