Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles

Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by curiousDog on Monday August 11, 2014 @08:33AM (#8162970)

You know why you lost the lottery? Because Indian outsourcing firms like Infosys, Wipro flooded it with applications to bring in cheap labor! There's no talent or extraordinary ability among the people they bring in. IMO, outsourcing companies should be banned from h1-b/greencard, period. Banning them, I doubt the H1-B quota will even fill-up

EDIT: In response to the downvoters, Im Indian myself and I know the quality of candidates these bodyshopper/outsourcing companies bring in. They are pretty much the bottom rung if the Indian education system. Most of them barely even speak/write English legibly. They also bring an incredibly bad name to the rest of the Indian developer community.

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by curiousDog on Monday August 11, 2014 @12:15PM (#8163846)

Here's a link to how many visas these companies steal: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/top-10-companies-request-visa... . They're literally flooding it (Around 75%, from the looks of it)

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by bruceb on Monday August 11, 2014 @09:48AM (#8163208)

All the people I know in Infosys/Wipro speaking English perfectly fine. While for some position they don't get the cream of the crop they are still companies that server a worldwide customer base. You are exaggerating or thinking of other outsourcing firms (there are bad ones for sure with mediocre talent)

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by cgh on Monday August 11, 2014 @12:09PM (#8163821)

The quality of Indian programmers tends to vary wildly. I currently work with some guys who are really good, and one guy who is simply incredible, while in the past I've worked with people who literally had never since a command line interface before. This was for a position where we deployed to Linux.

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by nesyt on Monday August 11, 2014 @12:25PM (#8163882)

The quality of programmers tends to vary wildly.

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Re:Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles by untog on Monday August 11, 2014 @11:16AM (#8163605)

I have interviewed a few candidates from companies like this, with Masters in Computer Science/IT/whatever. They were perfectly adept at coding C#, using the Entity Framework, etc... writing SQL? No. A few literally had no idea how it was structured.

One of a few reasons I'm glad to not be in the .NET world any more.

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