Pre Brexit, there was > 500 million people in the EU with free movement between member states, most tech companies still sourced a substantial number of their employees from outside the EU - some even had majority non EU tech employees.
The only jobs filled by locals were those which had artificial cap on employee numbers and local regulations(accountants/legal)
Whilst some of these engineers were A+ level brilliant, most were mediocre and doing jobs that could easily be done by local talent.
The benefits for companies doing this? - immigration visa tied to job and ability to lowball salary (as residence in host country was itself a major plus) thus ensuring salaries rose way slower than demand would otherwise have made them.
The one off cost of Visa is nothing compared to the money those companies saved.
'most were mediocre and doing jobs that could easily be done by local talent.'
I think most people are mediocore, and doing mediocore jovs -thats ok
Keep in mind that this allowed some compabies to afford half-decent engineers whereas they would nornally only be able to afford junior talent. Whether that works out to a net benefit is ofcourse debatable.
I personally find that a lot on management of engineers in UK is shockingly inefficient. I dont kniw what its like elsewhere, but i recon average 'efficiency' is under 50%
Nah, it literally grew from managers bragging very often about how much efficient they are, even though the facts were showing the very opposite of that.
I'm surprised "British scientists" meme has a good Wikipedia article in English[0].
P.S. Runet's memepedia Lurkmore redirects from "Efficient manager" to Stalin page.
The only jobs filled by locals were those which had artificial cap on employee numbers and local regulations(accountants/legal)
Whilst some of these engineers were A+ level brilliant, most were mediocre and doing jobs that could easily be done by local talent.
The benefits for companies doing this? - immigration visa tied to job and ability to lowball salary (as residence in host country was itself a major plus) thus ensuring salaries rose way slower than demand would otherwise have made them.
The one off cost of Visa is nothing compared to the money those companies saved.