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Re:New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for S... by jevoten on Thursday December 28, 2023 @02:34PM (#38797556)
No wonder they can't find workers, if from a nation of 334 million, all but ~16k/year [1] are considered substandard because they couldn't get into an Ivy.

Edit: More relevant is comparing Ivy undergrads (64.5k) to all US undergrads (20.3 million) [2], meaning only the top 0.3% make the cut.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League - total number of undergrads (64.5k), divided by 4, assuming a 4-year college course.

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/235406/undergraduate-enr...

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Re:New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for S... by hasty_pudding on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:13PM (#38798036)
Agreed thats insane.
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Re:New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for S... by alephnerd on Thursday December 28, 2023 @06:05PM (#38799860)
Our EM was from a CSU.

We didn't discriminate based on educational program.

But we didn't have the time to train someone in eBPF or OS Internals from scratch over months when there are competitors in Israel or India able to release the same thing in the same time period with a fraction of the cost.

For certain specialities of tech, there simply isn't the skill set anymore in the US. OS Internals and Computer Networking is a great example of that.

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