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Re:Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer by nemo44x on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @10:50PM (#32491737)
Yes, in the industry Euro engineers are considered to be generally high quality and underpaid. A good value. The danger being there are awful ones too that are hard to fire. In my experience Euro devs are really good though if you interview well. Individual contributors from Europe are generally a great value.

Euro managers however are generally thought to be of extremely low quality and unreliable as well as 20-30 years dated in terms of running an org. Except at the top, never rely on senior or middle management in Euro to be much more than followers. Never let them run an org unless you really know them as their management techniques do not apply to modern software companies. Managers from Europe are generally of poor quality.

Re:Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer by spaniard89277 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @03:25AM (#32493309)
Sad to hear. What differences did you notice?
Re:Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer by nemo44x on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @11:27AM (#32497635)
You see it everywhere but in general I see a lot of superficiality in Euro managers. They love to have direct reports, but because they need them but because it makes them feel more official. This is more frequent in Euro in my experience.

You don't see outside the box thinking as much. Very vanilla approaches to things that are generally dated approaches. A culture that lacks innovation.

You see a bit of gaming the system to meet KPI goals. Things that are probably not useful to the company but help them hit a defined goal.

Just not very aggressive in their approach to the business. A very conservative business culture that doesn't really understand scale and is obsessed with throwing lots of bodies at a problem rather than finding novel and innovative approaches.

Insistence that "this won't work here" when that's just not generally true. It's that they don't understand why the approach works and are stuck in older approaches to things that are not relevant to todays business world.

Secretive and inward looking.