[Cookingboy]

There is no preference when it comes to hiring Top Tier engineers. Here at Google we try to hire everyone that can pass the interviews, if you are a U.S. Citizen that doesn't require Visa sponsorship then it's all the much better. I've never ever heard of anyone losing their job to foreigners in top Silicon Valley companies.

I never said foreign engineers are better, I said top ones are just as good as top ones here. Most of them work in low level positions for 70k a year but that's true for most American engineers as well. Cost would obviously play a big role for jobs of those level.

But I was replying to the comment about exceptional talent, not the overall job market.

What makes you think they WOULDN'T be as good? I've casually worked with some top tier Engineers from Baidu and Alibaba before this job and I'd say they'd have no problem landing a good position at Google or Facebook any day.