"Developers in Europe have a culture and work ethic similar to that in the US and working together with colleagues from across the ocean has never been a proble

"Developers in Europe have a culture and work ethic similar to that in the US and working together with colleagues from across the ocean has never been a problem." The "colleagues" is key. India has such a (deserved) reputation for low quality code, thanks to the entrenched bodyshops that hire tens of thousands of barely capable devs with piss poor work ethics, and ISO/CMM "experts" and lots of mangers to herd them all, that really good devs (who want to stay devs) are lost in the noise, emigrate to the USA or become managers. "because the EU team is not just "hired" by the US company, but we're actually all in it together, as a mixed team of Americans and Europeans pushing our business from both sides of the ocean." This is the right (the only?) way to do it no matter where you hire from.