There are no labor shortages. It’s a way for large tech companies to control salaries of the skilled workers.
It allows to lobby the notions of need for workers’ visas to bring in cheap labor. This cheap labor is then much more easily controlled (visa conditions, e.g. H1B - cannot easily leave workplace, several years to transition to next immigration status, yet more years to citizenship).
Now, this is a very naive conclusion, stemming from utter lack of experience of how real world, or even real large systems work.
The true value of these “old” legacy systems is in years of development, debugging, validation of how these systems work. Including statistical guarantees of them working the way they were intended to. Hardware choices are thus very much secondary and dictated by how much they serve this preservation of investment in these complex systems. Rewriting them is a huge economical undertaking, not justified at all by transitioning to some new latest vogue technology buzzword, peddled by the big tech PR.
The FSB really dropped the ball on this one. Very unprofessional on their part.
Heads will roll on Lubyanka street… Unless they hurry up and seize the power.
US healthcare is absolutely horrible. Both outrageously expensive and utterly lacking in availability. This is why average longevity in US is declining while it is growing in other developed countries.
Ah, that’s kind of like refugees fleeing all kinds of failing states to better places, that have rule or law, democracy, human rights, prosperity and then actively trying to install the norms of the old country in the new place they fled to.
There are several reasons for that:
- lack of knowledge how to maintain own servers on premises
- MASSIVE PR by a handful of top tier cloud providers to instill the notion that cloud is the only solution, the best one and most advanced technologically and attractive silk set wise
- hockey stick growth expectations of (past days) startups from investors, forming the mindset that it must be met from day one in deployment
- “no one got fired for buying IBM” managers/tech leaders mentality, where IBM is replaced with “cloud”
- difficulty obtaining true costs information of cloud vs on premises deployment. For example - a team of ~16 people already pays off the costs of dedicated sysadmin to maintain on premises servers
- etc.
That’s a common misconception, especially among people who have only shallow acquaintances with really complex computer systems, amplified by deeper exposure to biological systems.
Any sufficiently complex system, be it biological or man made, exhibits characteristics of difficult predictability, even to the point of unpredictable.
Real Meritocracy or be shoved to the back of competitive stage is the harsh reality of the competitive world.
If it isn’t happening to your company - you’re in a monopoly/oligopoly.
Ability to learn new languages (as an adult) follows normal distribution. Moreover, the further the new language is from one’s mother tongue the more difficult it is. Furthermore, people who excel in mother tongue (with enhanced writing and expressive abilities) often fall on the lower end of the spectrum with the ability to learn new languages. Shaming people over that is quite … shameful.
The value “generated” actually belongs to the consumers who are forced to pay (doesn’t matter whether directly or indirectly) exuberant prices to a monopoly.
Which is precisely what Google is.
But the number of H1B visas is NOT decreasing and the big tech companies that own the advertising platforms continue to whine about talent shortage.
It’s a farce to reduce their costs by flooding the market with cheap labor.
Yup. Concur almost entirely. It’s superb abilities in complexity management. Which is what real software engineering is all about.
Like management or raising kids, everyone think they can do it.
Very few can do it really well.