8 Aug
2011
8 Aug
'11
6:37 a.m.
On 8/7/11 7:07 PM, Daniel Schultz wrote:
Anyone who has tried to find an engineering job recently knows that there is no shortage of engineers, but lazy journalists keep reporting about a crisis in STEM education and how we need to inspire the next generation to study science and engineering.
I can't agree with this. While there's certainly a nasty economic slump right now, over the past 10-15 years there's been a huge influx of non-US-citizen engineers where I work because there weren't enough US engineers to fill all the positions.
Given all the visa hassles and roadblocks erected by the US government, no American company is going to hire lots of non-American employees to fill positions in the US unless it absolutely has to.