I disagree, I worked with a lot of terrible American software engineers. I would never work with an American developers because I'm competing on price with Amer

I disagree, I worked with a lot of terrible American software engineers. I would never work with an American developers because I'm competing on price with American employers. If someone is looking for IT work outside of the states, they're most likely not good enough to work for better paying companies in the states. Likewise, FAANGs routinely hire talent from abroad. As for everything, there are plenty of exceptions: two of the most talented and fastest growing Software Engineers I met were Americans - and they didn't have any formal CS education. Over the years I definitely picked my political incorrect biased list of countries to avoid for talent sourcing. I could spend hours talking about funny stories involving bad contractors from India, Hungary, Eastern Europe and Spain but it's absolutely pointless. You'll find terrible engineers everywhere, even in the states. USA companies have incredible wealth compared to other companies and they can afford to spend ridiculous amount to try and weed out the majority of terrible engineers. Having hired contractors who used to work at FAANGs, I can tell you I found some pretty terrible hires there as well. Almost like memorising algorithms and CS exercises and then spending 4 years trying to build a case for your promotion isn't going to make you improve as an engineer.