JayJay
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I work in this field too…in artificial intelligence.
There the H1B slowdown has hamstrung our team.
The best AI folks are foreign…no two ways about it.
Especially for that rare combo of AI/ML plus software engineering experience.
America is way behind in this in producing these folks.
Axxowiz
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Every new complex that goes up is from India, a person might that and think “Oh he’s just a racist” I could care less I just know that they every time you see them moving in areas in mass it means all those U.S. jobs are now gone.
I would imagine if say they brought in a half million Vietnamese to replace k-12 teachers since they would work for $25,000 a year the teachers in the U.S. would be upset, in IT it literally is that seismic of a shift.
Axxowiz
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I never got into A.I. other than college I wanted to be a game developer but when I got out we were in the Great Recession I had to move to the other side of the country to find work
so I took the company that would take me, and I don’t remember much of that other than a big class project were we has to code the Cracker Barrel triangle game in C++ that was hard.
I am in the backend industry (Moving Data, Business Rules) since your in I.T. your familiar with that, the place I have been we are and affiliate of Microsoft so I do .Net, c#, Angular JS, SSIS-RS, Entity Framework to MsSql.
My current company is small we don’t have many foreigners and let’s be honest (in my experience anyways) when I talk about foreigners I am speaking of India. I don’t even think I ever worked with a developer from China throughout my career, they are literally all from India especially when I worked for the healthcare company and worked with Java.
Glad to see a fellow I.T. person here.
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Nice…I see we have similar backgrounds. I haven’t done any .NET (C#) development in several years. However, after Python, Java, and Objective C, C# is a favorite.
Some folks have negative feelings in regards to Micro$oft, but I love their dev products. Visual Studio is still my favorite IDE.
Axxowiz
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It’s a solid IDE, I use to do Java and more open source like your set, never touched objective C. Would like to have learned that and Python which I haven’t touched forever is becoming one of the biggest languages out there.
As I get older I get more stubborn and lazy about changing things up. I bet I had four classes when I was doing my masters in statistics using the tool called SAS (Statistical Analysis software) I couldn’t find a position in game dev or companies using SAS no one even called me back during the Great Recession. So I ended up in backend development jobs, never really thought in school that’s were I would be.