Organizations hire for their needs, not to have exactly equal numbers of people across arbitrary metrics. The issue with "maximum 10% of the total yearly intake

Organizations hire for their needs, not to have exactly equal numbers of people across arbitrary metrics. The issue with "maximum 10% of the total yearly intake from any one country" is that it's a feel good statistic on paper, but it ends up having the real effect that it instantly puts top talent out of reach for US companies (all other things being equal, countries with more population will have more people of exceptional talent). http://paulgraham.com/95.html http://paulgraham.com/95.html