Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.

Vivek Wadhwa

Categorized in : Hear Immigration Hardship Unemployed

The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age, and it becomes harder and harder to get a job.

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You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who's struggling, basically - who's had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can't start companies.

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Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.

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Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

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Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

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