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I heartfully agree. My experience with remote working for US companies has been: 1. been hired, 2. work for 3 or 4 months, 3. the company demands a local team in your site to continue working.

Yep. Outsourcing work to other countries might be cheaper but from what I have seen there is no the same level of involvement of all parties. Much of the time both contractor and company are expendables. And yes, if you are lucky, you get to form a team and let them work for 6 months tops before client's dissolution.

Perhaps in US market startups are an attractive thing but most senior (over 30+ years) talent will prefer a solid company at least here in Europe. YMMYV