Unbelievably stupid (for reasons hopefully clear to everyone here). Extremely infuriating that someone would think that the people with these skills aren't extremely valuable for suitable software jobs (...contrary to what the market says).
Especially so in Silicon Valley, where so many software engineering jobs are more on the side of scientific computing, and actually require advanced science degrees.
E.g.: my previous employer was an EDA firm; guess what: writing software for litho mask optimization requires a solid knowledge of EM physics, chemistry and math quite beyond what a typical MS in Comp. Sci. might give. (Everyone on my team had a PhD, none a CompSci).
Then there's the whole academic pyramid aspect: there are way more PhD students than academic jobs, and cutting off access to jobs for people getting PhD's in the US is a good way to slowly kill science (which is an international endeavor).
Out of all the stupid anti-immigration initiatives, this one is the most outrageous.
Signed, a mathematics PhD working in software engineering.
Unbelievably stupid (for reasons hopefully clear to everyone here). Extremely infuriating that someone would think that the people with these skills aren't extremely valuable for suitable software jobs (...contrary to what the market says).
Especially so in Silicon Valley, where so many software engineering jobs are more on the side of scientific computing, and actually require advanced science degrees.
E.g.: my previous employer was an EDA firm; guess what: writing software for litho mask optimization requires a solid knowledge of EM physics, chemistry and math quite beyond what a typical MS in Comp. Sci. might give. (Everyone on my team had a PhD, none a CompSci).
Then there's the whole academic pyramid aspect: there are way more PhD students than academic jobs, and cutting off access to jobs for people getting PhD's in the US is a good way to slowly kill science (which is an international endeavor).
Out of all the stupid anti-immigration initiatives, this one is the most outrageous.
Signed, a mathematics PhD working in software engineering.