The myth of America's missing software engineers

[FreshFromATL]

I did a Java code review for a contractor of ours who is a foreigner.
He wrote this near the top of his code to define all his variables.

private static final int NUMBER_ZERO = 0;
private static final int NUMBER_ONE = 1;
private static final int NUMBER_TWO = 2;

I was like you don't need to do that for integers. It's never going to change. Zero is never going to be another number.

 

[unit321]

I kid you not. This was like 2 days ago.

 

[Spatial Paradox]

I did a Java code review for a contractor of ours who is a foreigner.
He wrote this near the top of his code to define all his variables.

private static final int NUMBER_ZERO = 0;
private static final int NUMBER_ONE = 1;
private static final int NUMBER_TWO = 2;

I was like you don't need to do that for integers. It's never going to change. Zero is never going to be another number.

 

[Aprogressivone]

I really don't want to leave the DC area for this reason. Tons of jobs that only CITIZENS can have due to the fact you need to be able to obtain or possess a clearance of some sort. They are not about to hire H1B software developers/engineers to work on government facilities and stuff. LOL that is how I got my job. Tons of Indian and Chinese people were applying for the job and could not even get it. My supervisor was getting pissed from interviewing people who should not have even been applying in the first place. My interview was like so you are a citizen? You don't have a criminal record or crazy credit issues that would prevent you from obtaining a clearance? Can you complete these tasks? You're hired. LOL. I joined the Coli IT with certs 6 figure brigade soon after. Not ing

 

[blackzeus]

The question here is finding quality engineers.

The best engineers I know were immigrants.
I don't know what they are teaching kids in college I interviewed one for a position the other day and I didn't recommend him for hiring because he knew nothing but had a 3.9 GPA

the average American kid cannot compete with a kid from Asia or even some African countries when it comes to software/Network engineering.

You won't understand till you work in the business.

At the engineering college at my uni over 60% of the students were Asian

 

[JT-Money]

I really don't want to leave the DC area for this reason. Tons of jobs that only CITIZENS can have due to the fact you need to be able to obtain or possess a clearance of some sort. They are not about to hire H1B software developers/engineers to work on government facilities and stuff. LOL that is how I got my job. Tons of Indian and Chinese people were applying for the job and could not even get it. My supervisor was getting pissed from interviewing people who should not have even been applying in the first place. My interview was like so you are a citizen? You don't have a criminal record or crazy credit issues that would prevent you from obtaining a clearance? Can you complete these tasks? You're hired. LOL. I joined the Coli IT with certs 6 figure brigade soon after. Not ing

But it's going to get a lot harder to obtain a clearance after these NSA leaks by Snowden. Tons of people will lose their clearances as the government finally cracks down on contracting companies.

 

[Aprogressivone]

But it's going to get a lot harder to obtain a clearance after these NSA leaks by Snowden. Tons of people will lose their clearances as the government finally cracks down on contracting companies.

I hear you on that. That is something a friend of mine was discussing with me.

 

[JT-Money]

I hear you on that. That is something a friend of mine was discussing with me.

I got out of Federal contracting once the sequester took effect. I think you'll see tons of contractors get the boot because of these NSA leaks. Some of these people should've never been granted security clearances in the first place.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/insider-threat-training_n_3714333.html

Watch out for "Hema."

A security training test created by a Defense Department agency warns federal workers that they should consider the hypothetical Indian-American woman a "high threat" because she frequently visits family abroad, has money troubles and "speaks openly of unhappiness with U.S. foreign policy."

That slide, from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), is a startling demonstration of the Obama administration's obsession with leakers and other "insider threats." One goal of its broader "Insider Threat" program is to stop the next Bradley Manning or Edward Snowden from spilling classified or sensitive information.

But critics have charged that the Insider Threat program, as McClatchy first reported, treats leakers acting in the public interest as traitors -- and may not even accomplish its goal of preventing classified leaks.

 

[Type Username Here]

private static final int NUMBER_ZERO = 0;
private static final int NUMBER_ONE = 1;
private static final int NUMBER_TWO = 2;

why?

 

[unit321]

...I joined the Coli IT with certs 6 figure brigade soon after...

$100,000+ income.

why?

Using brains == Cash money