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I have a student, recent graduate, who’s looking for a software development job and is up against the US visa deadline. Any advice on where he should be looking? Know of companies, or even industries, a bit removed from the fallout of Big Tech’s layoffs?
This student could be a •great• help to some not-tech org struggling to hold together their web site or some internal system that’s a bit beyond their maintenance capacity.
The software job market is bizarre right now. Any tips welcome!
I know this student isn’t the only one. So many students who could be great junior developers, good-natured, smart, tenacious, and we just kick them out of the country on a regular basis because they graduated at the wrong point in some investors’ growth/extraction cycle. It’s a stupid self-inflicted wound, by businesses and by the United States.
Whole lot of people think US dominance of the tech industry is a law of nature. Fools.
Tech titans, politicians: you could kill this goose that lays golden eggs with terrifying speed. Keep this shit up, and in a generation US citizens could be the ones begging other countries for visas to work in tech. If you don’t let tech workers stay who want to stay, they •will• take their skills elsewhere.
Of course the thing that puts me off ever working in the USA despite it being a wonderful country with lovely people and some truly stunning landscapes is the healthcare situation.
I suspect there are many (and indeed many vastly more skilled than myself) workers who might consider a move who would equally be put off by that.
Wishing best of luck to your student.
@inthehands That has happened in the past and it will happen again because the USA are literally pushing the talented people away...
@inthehands Sadly, the US still has power to kill or maim any foreign company that dares to be more successful than an American one. TikTok the latest example, but Huawei and ZTE are also notorious. The US pressured Europe during the last few years to reject those providers of network infra equipment, and 10 countries are already applying the recommendation. https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/02/12/most-eu-members-not-implementing-huawei-zte-5g-ban-data-shows
@inthehands As long as the EU continues to regulate tech companies as hard as they do now, the US has nothing to worry about. Nobody is moving to China to be at the forefront of innovation unless it is the ROC.