Shortage Of Engineers Keeping Germans From Expanding Faster

Most of the engineers at BMW are from the UK - so I was told on a visit seven months ago to BMW Welt in Munich, Germany.

Correction: Not "most", but "many".

There seems to be problem with Germans hiring "Auslanders" (non-Germans)for these types of jobs. Even when children of foreign parents grew up in Germany and speak fluent German there appears to be a cultural resistance to hiring otherwise qualified professionals who look different. Perhaps things have changed since I left there a few years ago but that was the impression I got, both from my conversations with the local populace and reading newspaper articles. There are smart people in every country and culture. If the Germans don't want to take advantage of this then they are just hurting themselves in the long run.