Slashdot - How To Keep Your Job

07/14/2003

The Pragmatic Programmers are up on Slashdot again, this time it’s the How To Keep Your Job Talk. The poster says, in part:

CNN.com is running an interesting story on the heels of a Forrester Research report concerning the shift of high tech jobs from the U.S. to places like China, India, and Russia…

...are Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas correct in recognizing this as a new reality? Personally I tend to agree with Hunt and Thomas’s view (which is not completely opposed to Bruce Eckel’s opinion, btw) and I also agree with their viewpoint that protectionist policies like H1B quotas and tariffs won’t work to change anything for the better. So what do you think? Is this just another business cycle or is this a New World Order in IT?

Of course, we believe strongly that the world is a-changing. And with change comes opportunity.

Are you ready?