I am not really against having more people come work in this country. I am against some of the ways companies do this. Bill claims Microsoft can't find enough highly skilled workers and they actually have to pay more trying to bring them in with H1-B visas. The problem is that these leave a paper trail to tell more of the truth... The claim is they are highly paid and highly skilled position the truth is the majority of the hires are actually entry level programmers... Remember all the CS students coming out of college saying they can't get a job, yeah. Also, see how MS has some of the highest levels of applicants ever year out of CS companies? See how they reject people like myself who generally are actually more highly trained than entry level programmers coming out of many other countries (we tend to have more real world experience with actual development time). So basically while I will agree there is a overall hard market to get programmers, but not for one of the biggest companies there, which is preferring to hire this young people, because they are more controllable, cheaper, more willing to work unfair hours (60hours a week is common work hours in many of their countries). If you make your case for more visas, your claiming I am not highly skilled enough. Some simple programming tests could prove this not to be the case. So I say it again, bite me Bill.
I can't get enough employees in the US, Bill Lies about use of H1-B visas.
Over all I think they should be able to hire and bring people in from other countries, but I don't think we should be increasing the levels for a few companies at the top that are ignoring large parts of the local hiring pool. If you think you need students trained in certain aspects of CS better around here start investing and lobbying for better education. Not a way to help sink our education system further behind. Your claim of getting non entry level workers is debunked by your own paper work.
