Australia has amazing CS departments that produce more top talent computer scientists per capita than any other place I've seen.
They then export those engineers to the US and Europe and import people by the boat full who can't code their way out of a for loop with a map and compass.
I studied with some very cool people. One joined my consultancy, and the other won a million dollars in a machine learning competition before we graduated.
Unfortunately, yeah, we were all removed from the workforce in a conventional sense almost immediately. I run my own business and most of our clients are American, my co-founder became an executive within four years, and the last guy went into private consulting for the mining industry.
I know of a local business with a great engineering culture, and they told me that they've run forty in-person interviews to fill a single slot in the past. And their team is really overloaded with Americans that immigrated to Australia for non-career reasons.
>And their team is really overloaded with Americans that immigrated to Australia for non-career reasons.
Which is ironic given how bad everything has gotten since the end of covid. From my circle of friends _everyone_ has left and I'm half way tempted to move to Switzerland to work for a competitor in the field who offer American salaries with European social services.
They then export those engineers to the US and Europe and import people by the boat full who can't code their way out of a for loop with a map and compass.