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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
STEM, Science Technology Engineering Math
If we don't radically change our middle and HS curriculums immediately or extend public education a couple more years the US will quickly become a 3rd world country.
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Our problem isn't so much that we lack STEM graduates; it's that we lack
cheap STEM graduates. We will become a 3rd-world country because everything will be outsourced, and the only jobs for locals will be "service" jobs. I see this first hand: right now, in my company, a group of about 50 people are being laid-off en-mass (me included). Among them are some of the top people in their fields - OpenStack, storage , cloud, network and virtualization technologies. The actual jobs are going to India, and they're expecting these guys to magically transfer all their knowledge to India before the door hits them in the ass. The guy I sit next to spends 4 or 5 hours a day on the phone
literally training his replacement. I'm setting up continuous integration and build environments, and then copying them to lower-cost-geographies because they don't have the actual talent there, but they need the underlying infrastructure. The LCG people don't actually have the skillsets to do this, so we're building it here and copying it over. The
assumption by management is once they get working environment, they can just clone it for other projects. We have 2 other developers who hired right out of school, and within a year are getting laid off. Yet this same company is claiming they can't find qualified talent here in the US and needs more H1-B allocations. This exact same scenario is going on at many other companies and has been for years.
So lets say we waved a magick wand and suddenly 50% of kids suddenly became STEM graduates. Then what?