Comment Re:There really was a shortage of *good* people (Score 1) 385
Same with us. We just ran a 2 month search for a programmer (large financial firm, NYC). The pay offered was great - $125/hour - so we got hundreds of applicants.
We ran 3 questions on each technical area we required - sybase, ASP, UNIX and Perl. Only 3 passed. All were H1B's.
I learnt from the experience that recruiters are morons: the majority of applicants they sent in had no fucking clue how to program. I also learnt that managers hate american programmers because they argue too much - they argued with the questions, and they argued with the interviewer. And so they didn't get the job.
