Well, for one thing, last I heard, there are huge numbers of netsec opportunities out there, if nothing else.
I guess you're talking about Sysadmin, network and low-mid level dev types. From what I can gather, the Sysadmion job market is all over the place. Wages vary wildly from town to town, let alone state to state. The conversations I hear between sysadmins is generally along the lines of, if you aren't making this new 'minimum' level, you're getting screwed, as it's little more than sysop/2nd level support.
I don't have any evidence for or against think Google etc abusing the process to get mid-levels for peanuts. I think they want the cream of global coding and dev talent... they might end up paying more but they'll still want the best candidates, the 'talent', wherever it comes from. Even Elon Musk has come out publicly against the ban.
The problem for these companies is that every day that passes makes the US seem like a scary place to visit, let alone work. You look at it and think; what kind of respect and treatment am I going to get outside of the office. Getting through immigration as a tourist is already needlessly stressful. The work involved in getting a green card is.... insane. If you're looking at moving to the US to work, you've just seen that Green Cards can be ripped up without warning, individual consideration, or due process. You worry about going to visit family, or working in another country, and not being allowed back in.
The tech companies did have to scramble to avoid these situations. It's uncertainty, it's doubt, it's chaos. It's not good for business.
I guess you're talking about Sysadmin, network and low-mid level dev types. From what I can gather, the Sysadmion job market is all over the place. Wages vary wildly from town to town, let alone state to state. The conversations I hear between sysadmins is generally along the lines of, if you aren't making this new 'minimum' level, you're getting screwed, as it's little more than sysop/2nd level support.
I don't have any evidence for or against think Google etc abusing the process to get mid-levels for peanuts. I think they want the cream of global coding and dev talent... they might end up paying more but they'll still want the best candidates, the 'talent', wherever it comes from. Even Elon Musk has come out publicly against the ban.
The problem for these companies is that every day that passes makes the US seem like a scary place to visit, let alone work. You look at it and think; what kind of respect and treatment am I going to get outside of the office. Getting through immigration as a tourist is already needlessly stressful. The work involved in getting a green card is.... insane. If you're looking at moving to the US to work, you've just seen that Green Cards can be ripped up without warning, individual consideration, or due process. You worry about going to visit family, or working in another country, and not being allowed back in.
The tech companies did have to scramble to avoid these situations. It's uncertainty, it's doubt, it's chaos. It's not good for business.