All the large tech firms are hiring as quickly as they can, and are still starving for devs. Ignoring the education problem, the next best approach is to hire from overseas; and that's also extremely difficult due to immigration law.
Can you provide some proof? I hear people say this, but I'd love to see real data to back it up
Wages are more or less stagnant (source: http://www.epi.org/publication/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill...) and many of the big companies Silicon Valley just got spanked for illegal no poach hiring agreements.
Are the large tech firms REALLY hiring as quickly as they can? Or do they just prefer guest workers they can pay less and exert greater control over via their worker visas?
http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/05/10-h1b-visa...
Software wages are trending up
http://s2.epi.org/files/charts/IT-Guestworkers_Figure-O.png....
and judging from the spikes in that graph, the data is bunk anyway, including IPO millionaires in the average, instead of using median.