Every US company I’ve worked with that ended up with a London dev branch as part of an acquisition seems well aware of the wage disparity. They pull over the cr

Every US company I’ve worked with that ended up with a London dev branch as part of an acquisition seems well aware of the wage disparity. They pull over the cream of the crop on L1 visas. It’s like temp-to-perm except 1000 times worse because it’s Sr resources with families broken on the countrywide collusion to underpay IT workers. Part of it seems to be that the UK based companies don’t expect massive success. They have a thing, it makes some people at the top a pretty good living, that’s enough. They obviously could create massively successful companies based on the talent available, but no one wants to. Or possibly more accurately: the people who want to realize that proximity to other like-minded people is critical to success, and they leave. Every originally-from-the-UK tech worker I know in the US is well aware of how lucky they were to get out.