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What Indian Firms are Looking to Pay U.S. Citizens

seasoned_geek by seasoned_geek

I kid you not, this opening popped up on Dice. Indian firms looking for U.S. Citizens. Keep in mind this is for a Senior developer and apparently you only need 5 years for that.

That explains all of the failed projects you hear about and all of the shit candidates you have to interview. This low-skill off-shore shit has been a problem for years.

In a COBOL shop you can be there 10 years and still be a junior developer. Same for any non-Agile shop that only hires college graduates.

Haven’t you, as U.S. Citizens, had it with the shit quality of software and services companies are churning out using Indian firms? It’s putting your identity and financial well being at risk. Low quality Agile developed software is one of the main reason breaches happen. Automated testing via Jenkins or some other batch job is not testing.

My God! Apple didn’t put a password on the root account!

Agile has officially failed!

It’s time to punish companies who use H-1B and off-shore labor. Complete boycott until they purge the low-skilled labor from their ranks. Tesla is a good place to start! Elon Musk obviously can’t replace U.S. Citizens with visa workers fast enough.

Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.

A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.

Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars

When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.