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Re:Software company's response to Australian government abol... by pasquinelli on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @11:28PM (#14153695)
An inability to find intermediate and senior australian devs -- (but apparently not entry level) -- sounds like a failure of tech employers to grow talent. Shipping people in from overseas works around that problem, and so the problem goes unfixed.

If the industry got that problem fixed, they could drive down labor costs for all intermediate and senior devs, not just foreign ones.

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Re:Software company's response to Australian government abol... by sanswork on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @11:32PM (#14153706)
>sounds like a failure of tech employers to grow talent

I see this a lot but people making this argument never seem to consider the fact that demand can increase substantially in a field over a very small amount of time. You blame it on companies not training talent but haven't even considered that the numbers just aren't there.

Again costs aren't an issue so driving down costs is at best a tertiary goal.

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Re:Software company's response to Australian government abol... by hackits on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @11:41PM (#14153750)
Btw I'm one of those intermediate and senior australian devs. Looking at changing jobs if you're interested.
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