become a hiring manager and you'll see.
you don't even get applications for those jobs by American CS grads or professionals - before any salary numbers are in play.
we run analysis in our HR pipeline trackers - remove Asians and Eastern Europeans and its crickets.
walk into Google, Facebook, Salesforce offices and see for yourself.
i know this is super unpopular on HN were everyone is a superstar coder, but facts are fact. 90% of software work is undesirable and unfulfilling - and Westerners feel entitled to life-changing work.
I just had a 26 year-old US coder quit because he does not want to come to work every day anymore, he now wants to travel Nepal and do something radical. Great for him - while a 1000 less-fortunate-by- birthplace people would give a leg for his job.