Well I was imported from Canada to do work for Lensman, after he tried for quite a while to find someone that could do the work he needed.
While he did have control over my visa, this was never an issue.
So far as low wages, when I start with the wages were above average, and by the time I left after 4 years it was WAY above average. I paid more in taxes than most prgrammer made in a year.
So not all biz is takeing that kind of advantage of people.
When we (Adult.com) requested applications for more programmers, very few had the required skills and most of those were just bullshitting, we brought them in and they could not do what they said they could could.... so what else are you supposed to do, we needed to get the work done.
Being a programmer is no longer enough, you have to completly understand the biz that you are programming for.
The schools are not helping any, I have met lots of programmers that majored in programming in school and the schools just messed them up...
They seem to have the ability to think outside of the box taken from them. The schools teach a very rigid approach to programming and in todays market that just hurts the poor guy.
They all want the "perfect" program before taking it live, this does not work in our fast passed world now. You need to get it working, then tweak it.........
I remember when our main CTC program crashed on CTC's servers... we did not have time to make a perfect system and realese it... I wrote what we needed to to keep it running in couple of hours, once that was done we tweaked as we needed it. That kept the webmasters happy as the traffic was still being counted.
Its not that I think schools are bad, but if you take what they tell you and follow exactly their system, you will be hard pressed to find and keep a job. Microsoft hired most of it programmers from a school in Eastern Canada because they taught the programmers to think for them selves.
The schools are not keeping up with the way things are changing...
Change the schools and stop making sheep......
then things will turn around...
until this happens, nothing will change....
