Elon Musk Explains Why SpaceX Only Hires Americans _ Inverse

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00:00Here are from many different countries. You're going interplanetary but you're

00:04not going international. When are you going to hire people from other

00:07countries than the US?

00:16Yeah so I think people are very confused about this. Unfortunately this is not up

00:22to us. So the US government regulations, well they make getting a job in the US

00:29hard as it is. You're just getting a job as hard as it is. But if you're working on

00:34rocket technology that's considered an advanced weapons technology. So even a

00:38normal work visa isn't sufficient unless you get a special permission from the

00:45Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of State. So I want to be clear. This is not

00:51out of some desire of SpaceX to just hire people with with green cards. It's

00:58it's because we're not allowed to do anything else. I mean I think this is not

01:04a wise thing for this is not a wise policy for you know for the US because

01:10there's so many talented people all around the world that we would love to

01:14have work at our company. But unless they can somehow get a green card we can't

01:20we're just legally prevented from from hiring anyone. But for example this is

01:26another case at Tesla. Tesla we're about about a quarter of our engineering team

01:32is from outside the US and we're even thirty percent because we don't have the

01:39ITAR restriction. So I really wish we could do more. It's just our hands are tied.