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For AWS, sure. Hire ops folks for $60-75k and they turnover pretty quick or move up. If you do a formal mentoring and training program, you’ll “grow” 80% of those folks.

It’s tough to do for a smaller company, you can pay one skilled worker a wage 3x the semi-skilled worker and get 5x-10x the output.

Good luck finding that COBOL programmer.

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They are not importing COBOL developers man. I know 3-4 members on my team that do Angular. It’s a scam.

None of the h1b workers I’ve worked with have done more than basic web development.

It’s fine work, but it’s not specialist work, and it has prevented me from hiring American many times.

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