Director of IBM's Academic Initiative: Outsourcing way overplayed

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<p>Pulled this from Slashdot. This is something I've been arguing with various people for a long time (some on this forum, but mostly elsewhere), and thought it was quite an interesting read, especially for engineers and engineering/prospective engineering majors.</p>

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<p>are the nine new jobs created engineering jobs??</p>

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<p>bull*****.......5%? THAT'S A LIE...ESPECIALLY FOR ENGINEERING...THE GUY SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF.</p>

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<p>I believe it. The jobs that are being outsourced are generally the less skilled jobs - not eningeers and computer scientists. Now many companies are expanding overseas and using foreign technical workers, but I don't see that as outsourcing.</p>

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<p>I believe it, too. It fits with my experience.</p>

<p>And, as for the nine new jobs, some will be engineering jobs, many will certainly involve the use of high technology, and almost all will be service sector jobs. </p>

<p>The "outsourcing crisis" is ridiculously overblown.</p>

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Who to trust: Director of IBM's Academic Initiative program or "insecure101," active College Confidential member. Tough...</p>

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<p>I think a far more poignant point is to point out that plenty of American engineers get HIRED because of outsourcing, specifically, when foreign companies locate R&D centers in the US. For example, most major foreign tech companies have substantial research centers in the US to take advantage of US research talent. For example, Nokia has a number of R&D departments located in the US. Nobody accuses the American engineers working there of "stealing" jobs from Finnish engineers. Sony has several large engineering centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, hiring many American engineers and computer scientists.</p>

<p>If American companies are not allowed to hire foreigners, then foreign companies should not be allowed to hire Americans. What's fair is fair. Therefore all of the Americans who are currently working for foreign companies should immediately be fired because they are "stealing" jobs that should be going to foreigners. You can't have it both ways.</p>

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<p>I never thought of it that way, sakky. Good point!</p>