{"id":4725,"date":"2024-12-25T12:39:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T20:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2024-12-25T12:39:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T20:39:25","slug":"not-true-40-of-us-software-engineers-born-outside-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/12\/25\/not-true-40-of-us-software-engineers-born-outside-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Not true: &#8220;40% of US software engineers born outside the US&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am in process of reviewing\/editing\/archiving old posts on my tech blog and ran across this old post. Bloomberg incorrectly claimed that 40% of all U.S. software engineers are foreign born: <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/2023\/01\/30\/software-40-of-software-engineers-born-outside-the-united-states\/\">Software: \u201c40% of software engineers born outside the United States\u201d \u2013 Coldstreams<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It appears that Bloomberg misquoted a 2018 report that 40% of software engineers IN SEATTLE are foreign-born, and then applied that to the entire country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, in many fields it is important to have international experience because you will be working with, for or managing an international workforce, domestically or in offices abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a misquote by Bloomberg &#8211; it&#8217;s not true. But does highlight the importance of international experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globally-experienced","category-work-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}