Copio pego un comentario muy acertado de la noticia de IEEE que ha postrado Fernando III
In the early 2000's, the State of California let a large IT contract to Deloitte & Touche. As part of the State's IT staff, we were anxious to meet the professionals we'd be working with on the project. What we soon discovered was Deloitte & Touche planned to offshore most of the work to their division in India.
After a short time, we discovered the differences in time, culture, and language, as well as deficient telecommunication technology, made this approach unworkable. Their solution is what I refer to as the "Onshore" approach -- all of a sudden dozens of Indian nationals started showing up at our offices to work (presumably with appropriate visas, but no one wanted to be the one to ask so we'll never know).
Deloitte & Touche housed their workers in a residential complex within walking distance of our offices. They typically worked around 12 hours a day, and were often found at work on the weekends.
Although there were still some cultural and language issues, most seemed competent at programming and their English improved immensely. I even grew quite fond of a several of them. They definitely worked hard, I just don't know whether they worked "smart" or not. However, I found their overall software engineering skills lacking.
There were two things that really upset me and many other staff: 1) we had no notice the contractor was planning to use Indian nationals from their proposal, and 2) this was shortly after after the computer bust of 2000, and many of our friends and colleagues were looking for work.
Personally, I think the quality of the final product would have been superior to what we received, if the contractor had used local talent. I know the project would have run more smoothly with local software engineers (we're talking about people trained at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, California State San Francisco, and Stanford).
However, I'm sure Deloitte & Touche's profit would have been greatly reduced, if they had to pay market price for their talent.
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When I graduated college as an electrical engineer in 1986 with excellent credentials, there were predictions of a shortage of 1,000,000 engineers by 2000. In the meantime, I found precisely one job, had to move to California to get it, and the salary ($29,650) was barely enough for rent and basic living expenses in LA. This "shortage" of engineers is always just over the horizon. I eventually went to law school and my starting salary was what it would have been when I retired as an engineer. I always loved engineering, but I have never looked back. That was over 25 years ago, and the shortage of engineers is still a myth.
Quite right. The simple fact is that there are more graduates than jobs any way you look at it. There are strong financial incentives for academic and corporate institutions to perpetuate the need for more grads. For many students, the motive to study is the opportunity to marry financial gain with the love of science. The loss of this connection is a tragedy.
The STEM crisis is a big lie. It is invented by big companies in order to decrease salaries. This big lie is being kept alive due to the big money of corporations. As a result unnecessary foreign workers are imported, while American STEM workers are left unemployed and poor, and their talents are buried.
It's called globalization. Pretty much all of so-called tech, math, and engineering jobs are subject to globalization, just as manufacturing was. Only jobs that require the immediate presence of a human being (service, trades, maintenance) are viable and most of those labor markets are glutted driving down the value of such workers. Karl Marx was prescient
I can't believe how blind this article and nearly are responses to what is in plain site: Engineers and other scientists ARE NOT PAID ENOUGH IN THEIR OWN FIELDS. I am a PhD student in Engineering, and the water cooler conversations frequently revolve on lucrative offers from consultancies and the finance sector. I know one person with 2 degrees from MIT and one from Cambridge in advanced structures (technology that goes into spacecraft, airplanes among others) who is seriously considering a very lucrative offer from one of the aforementioned alternatives. There is a very serious shortage in STEM graduates, most graduates of western universities are non-citizens, and the share of US and EU institutions in producing top notch research, patents and eventually high-tech exports is plunging. The US and EU and now import more high-tech products than they export, which wasn't the case 15 years ago, a trend that is exactly the opposite in Asia. The painful truth is, STEM graduates want high wages, respect, cars, attention and all the perks that are now going to bankers and lawyers, who are drags on the economy, producing no added value and creating no jobs. Until society is prepared to give them those things, little will change, the few that go into these very difficult degree programs will be offered peanuts to do what they were taught and double to do things which they are still better at than the people trained o do them (e.g. investment banking, risking analysis, anything involving numbers). This is unsustainable. Jobs and technology, and along with them wealth and prosperity, are fleeing east. In many 3rd world countries, especially Asia, where I am originally from, the most respected professions, and the toughest to get a spot in a university to study, are medicine and engineering. In the UK its sill things like bankers, lawyers and accountants. What will the bankers and lawyers do and what will the accountants tally up when the money is all gone? STEM = production, exports & jobs, its a simple equation, doesn't take a scientist or engineer to figure it out.
La producción, la innovación, el trabajo productivo y tangible ha emigrado a Asia y eso ha reventado el mercado STEM en Occidente. El eje del mundo está ya en Asia, y nosotros no somos más que la periferia.
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