Different for IT/Software and Hardware? (Score 1)

In my experience what they seem to be saying is true... I do circuit design at a large CPU design company. In my design group, I'd estimate 75+% of our new hires are foreign born and on H1B or simliar and it has nothing to do with the money... Everyone we interview gets the same set of technical questions and must have at least an Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. We get very, very few US citizen applicants let alone qualified ones. Might as well take the cream of the crop. I graduated from Arizona State in 2010 with my MS in EE and in my graduate level circuit classes, it was literally me and like 1 or 2 other guys (men) who were US citizens. Everyone else was from India or China. With no US kids enrolling in these advanced courses, it's no wonder we can't find enough people...