I don’t quite understand where you are going with this. Have you hired US nationals, or US educated people? Either way, I haven’t seen many US educated people in Europe, and especially in Portugal.

> This is for developer positions I would expect it different if you are hiring line cooks.

I’m a lead engineer myself.

Again, I yet have to find anyone in Europe who would have primary and secondary education in the US in high consideration. In fact, after traveling in Asia, I had somewhat the same experience: top US universities were highly valued, but anything below that was mostly dismissed.

For both places I was simply filling roles. I think maybe 80% local and 20% us nationals? Maybe 90/10? Probably 50% had US educations listed. Maybe 40%? But it’s not like I didn’t see any. I’m not sure what you think is surprising. US people study abroad too. It’s very common and tech people tend to pick US because it’s heavy in tech.

> Probably 50% had US educations listed. Maybe 40%?

That is an extremely large percentage if the candidate pool was chosen at random. That would be surprising in Europe.

Anyway, I didn’t say it was surprising, but it is rare.

> US people study abroad too. It’s very common and tech people tend to pick US because it’s heavy in tech.

Sure. But there is a difference between hiring US nationals abroad, who likely would be US educated, and US educated Portuguese or German nationals, who are a very small minority of the population, and that’s what I was asking.