China Is Bombarding Tech Talent With Job Offers. The West Is Freaking Out.
China Is Bombarding Tech Talent With Job Offers. The West Is Freaking Out.
a friend of mine was telling me about some friend of his who went to grad school in China right after college. i dunno if it was even tech, but he had studied mandarin in undergrad.
his first several years, he would comeback for the holidays and big family stuff. then he got some job there. over the years he would return less and less, until eventually he just stopped coming back to the US.
can you imagine? it sounds like something out of a fairy tale.
sounds like something out of a NYTimes propaganda piece tbh. RIP your friend, the CCP got to him
the mandarin candidate: how the sissypee brainwashes americans with the oriental mind virus
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This is someone who upgrades from an American expat to an American immigrant.
Wow, that's disgusting! Where would someone go to get bombarded with these tech job offers? You know, so I can avoid them?
Beware
spoiler
google China job board and you can find plenty of jobs to apply to https://jobs.echinacities.com/ https://www.hiredchina.com/jobs https://www.laowaicareer.com/
I'd love to be poached but I'm afraid I'm just tech, no talent.
Same 😔
Your number of Chinese students that go to the U$ does not match the info I can find, most stuff I see says ~280k/year. There has been a pretty large drop over the past few years, and the number peaked before COVID. This drop in students has caused funding issues for U$ universities, as foreign students pay a lot more in tuition than domestic ones.
pretty large drop over the past few years
Yeah the unis in my country are having a big cry about it because they spent the last 20 years increasing executive salaries and not doing much else so without the constant and growing cashflow they're kind of fucked.
Also don't forget the US (the entire Imperial Core, really) make conditions in the Global South unsafe, forcing people to migrate the only place that's safe: the Global North. Then they gatekeep and only let the wealthy or educated in.
They exterminate the underclass while siphoning capital and brain power, making the situation worse in a feedback loop. Isreal has the same strategy to try and force Jews into moving there. Spread antisemitism abroad, then claim to be the only safe place for Jews.
: "Whoa....I'm richer than ever...I have been having the best past five years of my life! I think....I think...."
: "I'll fire everyone and have those that remain pick up the slack, clearly I don't need so many workers!"
: "Hello western tech workers, did you get burned by porky? Here, come work with us."
: "Whoa whoa whoa....that's MY reserve army of labor to sit on and do nothing with!"i request bombardment by job offer, yes on my position please. danger close is a risk im willing to take
Surely, this is just a case where the invisible hand of the free market will be trusted to solve this issue without any intervention from Western governments and those aligned with them, no?
Free markets BTFO
I don't have any marketable skills but you could hire me as a western jester. If you tell me to dance like a monkey I'll do it. Please China, please 🥺
If you tell me to dance like a monkey I'll do it.
Can you afford to get there on a tourist visa? I forget the name for "white monkey" jobs but there's an industry (and I think still demand) for sure. Also just about any university qualification can get you an English teaching job in a bunch of actually-existing-communism countries still. I know that's out of reach for most people but fuck it, if you leave after graduation who's gonna try and debt collect the loans? lol
Holding out hope that ornamental hermits will catch on in China
Poach me please
I guess that's the natural outcome of underpayment. The west should be freaking out.
Me please I am tech
Staff with access to sensitive Zeiss know-how received LinkedIn messages, emails and calls from Huawei representatives, offering them up to three times their salaries to join the Chinese company, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
3x? LOL ok if they came to me with that id be willing to degrade myself for the position. xi pls
Also, it's 3x typical tech wages. Even outside the typical tech hubs, that's still a high paying position, and you'd be making that much in a country with a massively lower COL.
I shouldn’t have ghosted that recruiter a few years back
Tell me where and how and I'll sign the fuck up
Lol stupid the west
maybe the West shouldn't have done massive sweeping industry-wide layoffs then
What can a tech mediocrity get?
Was looking here the other day incidentally, looks like there are a bunch of jobs of all kinds https://www.echinacities.com/
, another bangerState funding for Chinese companies enables them to offer salaries beyond what Western companies can pay.
but muh free markets!
CHINA is SHOOTING at INNOCENT WESTERNERS with MONEY and JOBS!
It's a brilliant use of their dollar reserves. Ya know, beyond issuing bonds in USD
Wait fuck if I finish my degree I can escape???
I mean, they are still taking pretty much anyone with a bachelor's degree as an English teacher in China, Vietnam, Thailand, SA, Korea, Japan, etc. Just get a TEFL/TESOL certificate and it shouldn't be hard to find a job that will get you a work visa in another country.
Fucken a you can. One of my highschool friends is a world-top-tier mathematician and he's spent most of his adult life working in China doing work way below his capabilities just because he gets to be left alone and live outside of the western hegemony. Mufucka turned me on to communism when we were like 12. It's a shame really, in a better world he'd be the sort of mind that could solve serious fucking problems. But I think he's mostly happy with how things have panned out.
The only downside is it's hard for ex-pat workers to have true security in China (or has been, might've changed VERY recently) due to restrictive visas and few pathways to full citizenship for westoids.
incidentally, a handy site https://www.echinacities.com/
Is there anyone actually talented in "tech"?
experienced is probably a better word
My coding experience barely covers HTML so anything beyond that seems like magic to me lol
yeah they're all wasted programming insane FPGA shit for high frequency trading companies. Best robotics guy in several decades at my college is doing that now, probably earning 400k to do a totally nonproductive job
There are some people I've met over the years who are truly "one in a million".
They understand concepts so quickly, and can solve problems in ways I would never think of.
I have heard of Africans who got jobs with Chinese companies. Doubt it’ll ever happen in Guatemala with our lack of tech talent lol
Be the change you want to see in the world! I don’t think anyone would stereotype Africa as a hub of tech talent either
I suspect China will be courting your country too soon enough. Even if it won't be offshore work they're investing in infrastructure all over the planet. I love to see it.
The west, honestly, is shitting BRICS right now. The US dollar is no longer the uhh, idk what the word is, you know "lingua franca of finance" for the whole globe. New systems are emerging to replace everything being pegged to the US dollar and the price of oil. Crypto currency, funnily enough, is likely to have a big part to play in neutering the ability of the failing empire to do any effective sanctions very very soon, but also there's stuff to do with distributed financial resiliency based on traditional local currencies. I don't understand it but I think QAnon or Trillbillies or Buntavista did a very recent podcast episode on this.
World's changing, comrades. Really fast. It's going to be a wild couple of decades to come.
Global reserve currency
god i wish that were me
Can I bring my dog and my asexual life partner? It's okay none of us can breed and I'm volcel anyway.
Please choose me next xi, #SOSUSA
How dare they not follow along with western tech's wage fixing agreements!
Why did I graduate art school and not tech. It's like I'm trying to not have a job
Hey friend, I saw a few art teacher and ESL teacher listings on some of the websites linked above
There's no way in hell i could survive in China, i can barely avoid faux pas in my own culture, let alone a completely different one