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FriedRiceNSpice

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proelite said:
What a name.
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Maikeru said:
Perhaps that explains why he never went to the US. Constant sniggering would be off-putting even to the most accomplished academic. Anyway, I heard his assistant Sum Yung Gai is coming with him.
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What about his son, Mi Lick-Ho?
iewgnem said:
To be fair China is systemically annihilating Korean industry one by one just by offering superior products and technology.
Of course the root issue is a tiny country like Korea should have cooperated and sought out a niche within China's supply chain, rather than go hostile and compete at a national level with vastly larger country to begin with, but once down that path defeat and resentment is inevitable.
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It is sad that Korea, formerly a loyal and cooperative younger brother has bet on the wrong horse and become estranged from the older brother. Sadly, it looks they they are embarking on a path towards FAFO.
proelite said:
Not really. The ones based in India are celebrating the end of the "brain drain" without realizing that they have been offloading excess white collar software folks to America.
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In India, the top and brightest all emigrate, leaving India with the "excess." Opposite of what happens in China, where the best and brightest remain/return to China and only the, "excess," talent remain overseas. The best Indian software engineers are generally 2nd/3rd tier engineers in the US, while Chinese engineers that are first tier in the US wouldn't even get hired by top tech companies in China..
tokenanalyst said:
Either way, AI is probably going to eat a lot of this entry level IT jobs.

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Fantastic, combined with the H1B tax, in 10 years the job market for Staff Software Engineers in the US is going to be fantastic (if the US tech industry and the US itself hasn't fallen apart by then).
 
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Randomuser

Randomuser

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Mods can delete this since this is old news.

But I wanna ask the Singaporean posters here if Piyush Gupta's rule over DBS was a good or bad thing?

It's not a new thing since he's gone now but it got me thinking about what happens if you place key institutions in the hands of others esp those from India?



Now in actual recent events, I think westoids who used to swear by GDP are going to start singing a different tune. After all the excuse was we need immigration to keep the country's GDP growth. Well if they oppose that, then GDP isnt that important?

It's funny how I spent hours trying to figure out why GDP is flawed and it turned out all you need to get westoids to change their mind is recent immigration.
 
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pmc

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Africablack said:
I wonder if NATO does the same to the Russians, if so then I can understand this action but if not then the Russians are playing a very stupid game.
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Russia has more newer planes with greater flight duration. I doubt NATO can afford this game over wider area.
 
FriedButter

FriedButter

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tamsen_ikard said:
The extreme Meltdown of Indians after the H1b order is fun to watch. They have literally lost themselves. All the bravado and chest thumping is gone, now its all doom and gloom. Finally, the reckoning is coming for all the extreme aggressive foreign policy.

It’s funny that it all started due to May 7th. Modi must be regreting attacking Pakistan now.
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The real show begins when the HIRE act is passed and enforced by the White House. Assuming it ever does.

The bill aims to promote local job creation by discouraging outsourcing. It proposes a 25% excise tax on payments to foreign entities for services benefiting US consumers, and would deny tax deductions for these transactions.
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If enacted, the effective cost of offshored IT services could rise by nearly 60% after factoring in the excise tax and disallowance of deductions for federal and state corporate taxes.
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FriedRiceNSpice

FriedRiceNSpice

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proelite said:
I wish that was true lol. The excess is here in America. It started when leetcoding became a widespread way to evaluate candidates.
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Have you worked with offshore teams based in India? If you have, then you will realize that the Indians in the US on H1bs are actually far less incompetent than engineers based in India.

LeetCode is nothing new, companies such as Microsoft and Google have been asking LeetCode style questions since early 2000s. It is just much more widespread now. Yet for most software jobs in the US practicing LeetCode is unnecessary. For engineers desiring to work at good tech companies, than LeetCode is par for the course. If someone is unwilling to put in a few months practicing LeetCode and/or is unable to gain proficiency (defined as being able to solve 80-90% of Medium level questions as well as the most common 50-100 Hards) after a few months (assuming solid DSA fundamentals), then they wouldn't be able to survive in tech anyways.

The real problem with LeetCode is that many Indians who lack the actual problem solving ability just memorize a bunch of problems and manage to get jobs in tech. Obviously, these people become low performers and have to be managed out. This results in companies either 1) maintaining an unrealistically high bar for LeetCode, ie Google/Netflix or 2) adopting PIP factory culture, where each organization is required to meet a certain URA threshold annually (generally ~10%), ie Amazon/Meta, destroying company culture and turning these places in toxic meat grinders where engineer are constantly sucked in, drained until burnout, then PIPed.
 
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