> "At Roche, we only hire Swiss citizens to administer the SAP servers." Ex-Genentecher here too, and that quote really surprises me. Maybe it got that way la

> "At Roche, we only hire Swiss citizens to administer the SAP servers." Ex-Genentecher here too, and that quote really surprises me. Maybe it got that way later, but when I went to Basel in '95 to do some work I found a very international team. Granted, there were probably more Swiss among the IT guys than the Pharma people but it was by no means all-Swiss. The office language was English but the techies spoke a lot of German (and occasionally Swiss German) among themselves. My impression was not speaking German would be a disadvantage for IT, but I definitely did not feel like anybody was discriminating against the non-Swiss. (I speak German but not Swiss German.) I wonder if it changed that much, or if you just met some difficult people.