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Re:Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Students Sows Discord on U.S... by hvs on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:09PM (#11307630)
They don't have to be more competent if they are cheaper. Assuming that companies always hire the "best" for the job is naive.
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Re:Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Students Sows Discord on U.S... by saint_fiasco on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:19PM (#11307697)
That they don't hire the best individual doesn't mean they don't hire the best team. Sometimes the cheap inexperienced developer is the best investment and you are not. In that situation the cheap inexperienced guy deserves the job and you don't.

If the company makes a mistake, that is, they think they need a cheap inexperienced guy when in fact they need a 100% American-born-and-raised engineer, that company will be outcompeted by the ones who better know what they need.

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Re:Heavy Recruitment of Chinese Students Sows Discord on U.S... by hvs on Thursday March 17, 2016 @07:58PM (#11308699)
Yes, if people were reducible to a specific set of data points and the world worked on perfect knowledge and optimally efficiently, that would be true.
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