It has become a status symbol and a tool for attracting top talent, as others including Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter compete for engineers and developers.
This has led to stiff competition for AI talent in the U.S. as major international tech companies compete for engineers alongside Google, Microsoft and Facebook on their home turf.
— A plucky Silicon Valley company, forced to compete for talented engineers, is trying it all — recruiting billboards on Highway 101; workplace perks like treadmill workstations and foosball tables; and conference rooms named after celebrities like Rihanna and Justin Bieber.
Aside from the country's three largest tech companies Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba, ambitious $30 billion firm Bytedance — which acquired Musical.ly for $1 billion — and fast-growing companies SenseTime and Face++ all compete for AI engineers with compensation deals growing higher.
The two retail behemoths, one the king of the physical store and the other the conqueror of the online world, are battling over e-commerce — competing for the most talented engineers, trying to gain the upper hand in the new frontier of same-day delivery and warring over online pricing.
The fact that the field overlaps with numerous others means that biosystems engineers are often competing for the same jobs with biological scientists, and so the competition is fierce, particularly when a company is looking to fill a niche position.
The new report says that more than one million skilled workers — scientists, engineers, doctors and researchers — are competing for 120,000 permanent residence visas each year.
