The blog's author, later in the comments section, doing a great impersonation of my mother (sans the anti-immigrant bit): All of the smartest Americans are goi

The blog's author, later in the comments section, doing a great impersonation of my mother (sans the anti-immigrant bit): All of the smartest Americans are going into more lucrative fields like finance, medicine, and law. As much as you think the creme-of-the-crop engineers are getting paid, they aren’t making as much as investment bankers, and even the best computer programmers don’t make as much money as an average surgeon. The market is flooded with mediocre Indians willing to work cheap, and that’s what every IT department wants, cheap labor. It amazes me that people can still say things like this in post-crisis America. As if finance, which is still reeling, isn't already flooded with Indians and Asians with tech backgrounds, as if they aren't in law (horrifying debt, anemic job market) and medicine (even more horrifying debt, massive commitment) as well. Hell, I wonder if the quote here, supposedly from the WSJ comments section, is even real, or if he's just looking to rile people up. Ageism in engineering, especially software engineering, is a real issue worthy of vigorous debate, but I'd like to think there are better pieces we can argue around than this dubious anecdote.