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Re:Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisa... by soared on Thursday August 19, 2021 @10:19PM (#28241697)
Two friends and I just got hired together at a new company. We’re in the same geo while the rest of the team is remote, and the bulk of the company is not in the us. You’re second paragraph is very true! If I’m new and notice an odd workflow I would normally just adjust, but now I can go into our slack group and commiserate with my friends.

It doesn’t help that most of the company is Polish and their culture comes off as very rude to Americans :)

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Re:Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisa... by stavros on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:26PM (#28242213)
> It doesn’t help that most of the company is Polish and their culture comes off as very rude to Americans :)

I've always worked with Americans, and they struck me as very sensitive, whereas we tend to be much more direct. I adapted, and then I worked with Canadians, to whom my American style was seen as boorishly coarse.

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Re:Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisa... by blacktriangle on Friday August 20, 2021 @09:48AM (#28245901)
Am American, can confirm. Would much rather work with the Polish, Indian, and Russian contractors I've worked with than our domestic snowflakes.
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