Comment by j7ake

There are plenty. The author is over exaggerating the prestige of CMU compared to other institutes outside of the USA.

Just in the western countries:

Toronto, Cambridge, ENS in France, the many max Planck institutes in Germany (eg Tubingen), the two federal institutes in Switzerland.

Faculty positions in any of those are likely to be better than CMU (in terms of start up package, funding, quality of students, quality of faculty, and ability to hire people).