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Originally Posted by aschen
...In general I find many "foreign" workers are talented at analysis and analytical stuff. IN general I find many 'mericans are talented at design and hands on type work....
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You know what's funny is that my experience has been exactly the opposite. Here's a rather pedestrian example that clearly illustrates my experience. I was going to lunch with one of our H1B engineers (the one we had to let go). Due to our parking lot being full and also since the place was less than a mile down the street we didn't want to drive so we set out to take the bus. We're waiting at the bus stop when he starts calculating how long it would take to walk vs the bus schedule. While he was engrossed in calculating the bus pulls up and I said the bus is here lets just take the bus. It is obvious that a person cannot walk faster than the bus, right? This guy says," wait no cause if we start now it would only take us fifteen minutes to walk." The bus pulls away and he's still trying to explain his calculations to me. I let him talk. After he was done talking I told him that we would have been there by now had we just gotten on the bus. Yes he knew math but he didn't have the common sense to apply it.
Another example from several years ago, two H1B engineers from India were trying to decide how long a cable to get that would start at a point on the ceiling, go across to a wall and then reach down the corner of one of the walls in the room. We didn't need a lot of accuracy as it was for an extension chord. They had a tape measure. Instead of just measuring from a point on the floor below where the cable was to go then measure the height of the wall they started calculating using the a^2+b^2=c^2 method taking nearly 30 minutes(including all of their arguing with each other) to do what could have been done in 3 minutes. I admit I just sat back and chuckled as the two did their rounds.