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Yep, it's a good way to shelter their obscene profits (creating departments
with no real purpose). Read the book "Barbarians led by Bill Gates". This
was a tatic employed by Microsoft early on . Suddenly it's a business
expense that they can write off.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sigstroker@xxxxxxx [mailto:Sigstroker@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, September 07, 1998 10:01 PM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Programmers from India...
Absolutely. Engineers, too.
BTW, many of them are NOT worth their salt, just a warm body.
In a message dated 98-09-08 00:39:36 EDT, bnm03@xxxxxxx writes:
> I don't think American companies ala Microsoft et.al. spent all those
> zillions on lobbiests and bribes to get the visa quota raised to bring
> Indian programmers over and pay them a cool 100K/year. Try more like
> $40-60K/year, if that. Then there's the countless contract companies
that
> specialize in contractors from countries like India. Those people make a
> killing when they bring programmers from places like India, charge $55/hr
> and payout $20/hr and a work visa. Saw this at Intel more than I cared
to.
> Good Trading,
> Brian.
>
> bruceb wrote:
> > As for those foreign programmers, the US just increased the
> > number of visas for hi tech workers. Any Indian programmer worth his
or
> her
> > salt is on a plane heading toward Silicon Valley right now, and when
they
> do
> > start earning 100K/yr, they'll bring their family over and stay for
> good...
> >
>
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