Worked with a lot of them.
Not in agreement.
Not clear to me why you can’t find similar or better in the U.S.: you know as well as I do that American programmers are discriminated against routinely.
And don’t say “we can’t find them”, because many people don’t bother majoring in Comp Sci any more since they know they’ll have a hard time finding a job, especially with nonsense prejudiced statements like “as opposed to the products of our high school system”.
PS - how’d you get there, Bubba? You from Mumbai?