It is my observation, that U.S. companies are very unique. U.S. companies, unlike foreign companies, have a tendency to think way too short term (make shareholders happy with a short term share price gain), and a huge sacrifice to long term viability.
U.S. companies will
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engage in excessive stock buybacks (a short term share price fix, if at all),
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partner with overseas companies like in China in exchange for money (when reality it is knowledge transfer from the US company to the foreign company or government, knowing those "partners" will eventually turn into your competitors one they have caught up.
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trade short term sales in those foreign countries, in return for favors to the foreign government to provide more jobs and training to workers domestically so those local companies and workers can learn the know how of the U.S. company's business.
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Reduce investments in the U.S., reduce headcount in the U.S, reduce R&D in the U.S., and replace U.S. workers with workers elsewhere.
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Attempt to sell goods and services in the U.S. to a now dwindling middle class in the United States.
No other country in the world does this to their own companies and their own countrymen and women. Only American companies. This isn't the fault of foreign workers, this is completely a recipe to self-destruct, started by the American company itself.
Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, for example, are all heavily spending in China to partner and open up research/development centers in China, per request from the government in China, essentially enabling their own competitors that will be able to produce things much cheaper in the future. Microsoft just announced selling a huge arsenal of U.S. patents to Xiaomi, in exchange for "access to the market in China". These patents Xiaomi, for example could use, to thwart/sue/stall US technological development not only by Microsoft in the future, but every other U.S. tech company including, but not limited to, Apple, Intel, Amd, etc.
Why do US companies continue to operate with such a short sighted mindset. Companies in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan,India are going to eat U.S. company's lunch, and there's no one else to blame but the U.S. company's short sighted vision itself. And pretty soon, there won't that much left here. This isn't about co-existence in a global market. This is about U.S. technology company extinction.
As a tech worker in the U.S. I would take a serious hard look at your employer, and figure out where the majority of the investment is headed. If your employer is investing heavily outside of the U.S. versus here, things won't look very good for you here. It's best to look for employers that spend more here.
Examples: Tesla, Amazon, to a lesser extent, Apple (maybe no longer under Cook's watch).
Anti-Examples: Intel, Qualcomm, Amd