Facebook blames US immigration policy for Silicon Valley talent war

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer for Facebook, said US education and immigration policy were to blame for the fierce battle Silicon Valley technology companies were fighting over engineers. American universities should be “stapling a visa to every high-tech diploma” it issues to non-US students, Ms Sandberg said, rather than send foreign students back to their home countries to build companies that will compete with US ones. “Those people, not only do they not take jobs from other Americans, they create jobs for other Americans if we could keep them here,” she said. Zuckerberg said the problem was education and that US universities were not graduating enough engineers to meet demand.