I don't believe it... I think companies just aren't hiring people (or maybe they aren't offering enough pay), not that qualified domestic candidates don't exist. But I could be wrong.

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tyre 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Having interviewed hundreds of software engineers, I’m not convinced that the talent is out there but just hiding. Nor do I believe talent is fungible.

Pulling in smart people from all over the world is good for America.

I’m sure there are US citizens who would have been better candidates if we had a better education system or grew talent. Maybe this will encourage that, but it’s going to take a long time.

	▲	apwell23 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> if we had a better education system or grew talent What about yale CS grads working at chipotle. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44854263
	▲	majorchord 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		But if they're hiding, you wouldn't have interviewed them in the first place, right? I don't see how this is comparable. All the smart engineers that I know absolutely struggle to find jobs. There are regularly job threads here on HN or freelance subreddits and other places, that are chocked full of great people desperate for work. But maybe that's really just a small fraction of the people, I can't know for sure.

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vasilipupkin 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

you don't believe it why ? you look at American education system and you think it produces multitudes of talented engineers? is it so inconceivable that we need a lot of smart people and we don't produce enough of them locally ?

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Froztnova 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

So let's have a thought experiment. We can agree, even if the US primary education system is crap, that the university system is world class. After all, people wouldn't come from other countries to study abroad in the US if it were not competitive.

So our CS graduates take the same courses, study the same material, and pass on the same grading scales as these international students from countries like China, India, etc that have come to attend American universities. Therefore it seems unlikely that they are categorically incompetent due to a flaw in their education, even if we make some allowance for them not studying as rigorously as their international peers for whatever reason.

However, if the news can be believed, we're now seeing a significant number of CS graduates who are unable to find employment. This is coming on the tail end of a bunch of highly publicized layoffs.

The notion that there "Aren't Americans to do these jobs" just doesn't track. I'm sure that there are lots of corporate executives who are saying that there aren't enough qualified Americans to do these jobs, but they're saying that because it's in their best economic interest to say that, not because it's actually true.

	▲	vasilipupkin 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		there are too many CS grads without experience who are not very good. We have world class universities, by no means that implies that every new CS graduate is world class. A median CS graduate most likely cannot pass a basic interview in CS

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majorchord 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

US is #2 on this list so I think it's safe to say they produce more engineers than most countries, other than Russia.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-most-...

	▲	mattnewton 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		What is this chart and why isn’t China on it?

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apwell23 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44854263