There's talent, but unless the company is huge and can open a whole office, things like time zones, culture and language are very hard to overcome. And to your point, the most talented come to the US where they can make the most money.
> And to your point, the most talented come to the US where they can make the most money.
I don't agree with the "most talented". For sure a lot of talented people move to the US as they can make more money but that's a subset of the talented people, a subset that intersects with the ones that are willing to work harder/longer, or with less social benefits, etc. I've worked with a lot of talented individuals that were unwilling to relocate to the US even though they could get much better pay, simply because they were happy enough in their societies and weren't all in chasing only money.
Different people value different things, reducing that to a simple transactional value is rather inhumane.
I work with a company that has an office in Inida. It is really hard to manage people in that office, the timezone means that just to have a conversation someone needs to work bad hours. I've had to be in 5:30am meetings to catch them before them get home, other times they have put their kids to bed and then called me.
The only way you can make this work is if the people "there" are mostly self directed. that means the management needs to be able to make the right decisions when faced with a question, without calling back to "the main office". If any of the words or similar phrases are uttered it cannot work.
