Re:Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
by dragonwriter on Thursday November 07, 2019 @03:33PM
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> most software devs (including in the Bay Area, FAANG) are recent immigrants
The only data I can find that speaks to that (from 2015) has far less than half foreign-born (39.2% of "software engineers", 27.4% of "computer programmers", etc.), and obviously not all of those are going to be "recent immigrants".
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/foreign-...
Re:Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
by cameronbrown on Thursday November 07, 2019 @05:11PM
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40% is a lot. Don't forget tech's exponential growth in jobs over the past few decades.
Re:Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
by ragona on Thursday November 07, 2019 @05:55PM
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I’d be curious to see that from FAANG specifically, since they drive so much international hiring.
Re:Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
by geofft on Thursday November 07, 2019 @08:02PM
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> most software devs (including in the Bay Area, FAANG) are recent immigrants (or temporary guest workers)
The only data I can find supporting this is that tech workers in Silicon Valley as a whole are majority foreign-born. But that includes everyone from Oracle to HP to Wipro, not just FAANG. (And I think the definition of Silicon Valley in this data is the traditional one, i.e., not including San Francisco.)
A subset of those are recent immigrants.
This strikes me as a surprising assertion: most software devs (including in the Bay Area, FAANG) are recent immigrants (or temporary guest workers) who are, by definition, navigating a culture very different than the one they grew up in.