I sat next to a guy who made one of the arcade titles at Namco and the primary benefit to him was he got the opportuntiy to come to work at their USA R&D office

I sat next to a guy who made one of the arcade titles at Namco and the primary benefit to him was he got the opportuntiy to come to work at their USA R&D office. The Japanese employees got paid a lot more to work in the USA (though still less than Americans in the same office) and had a car and housing allowance and (if you see this as a benefit) got to live in America for a while. The pay if they stayed in Japan to work at the home office was pretty low, even compared to programmer/designer salary in a LCOL area of the USA, according to one of the guys who told us this over after work drinks.