Countries that are reducing numbers of immigrant workers

Re:Countries that are reducing numbers of immigrant workers by superasn on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:48AM (#14154487)

Being an Indian engineer myself the funniest part is that regardless of your branch/stream almost every person in my college got an IT job (your branch is decided by the entrance test).

We had a saying about TCS in our college "trespassers will be recruited". And they asked chemical engineering and GK questions during the placement tests. It was so weird when I think about it now.

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Re:Countries that are reducing numbers of immigrant workers by pkaye on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:06AM (#14154553)

What are examples are branch/stream? Are they just different engineering majors like Civil, Chemical, Mechanical?

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Re:Countries that are reducing numbers of immigrant workers by superasn on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:40AM (#14157035)

Yes that is exactly it.

Competition is really fierce in Indian engineering colleges. The ratio is 1 out 10K (or something similar) for getting into good colleges so you end up picking any branch you can get.

I'm not sure how it is in other countries though.

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Re:Countries that are reducing numbers of immigrant workers by pkaye on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:39AM (#14157627)

Kind of the same in the US. Some majors are "impacted" which means tougher to get in due to heavy demand. Computer science/engineering used to be tough to get into even 20 years back before the internet became popular.

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Re:Countries that are reducing numbers of immigrant workers by andy1729 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:38AM (#14154694)

Yes, branch/stream is same as majors.

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