This is the 2nd 'French' horror story I've heard. An ex-colleague (ex-pat french man) told me an almost exact same story (different software: numerical simulati

This is the 2nd 'French' horror story I've heard. An ex-colleague (ex-pat french man) told me an almost exact same story (different software: numerical simulations). Of course bad software happens all over the globe (Looking at you Canadian Phoenix pay system). However (to me) there are some cultural issues which make things even worse it seems : a VERY rigid chain of command structure and a strict 'political' hierarchy which makes changes happen very very slowly and not always towards the best outcome (for the project, billing is $$$ great). As mentioned each country has issues, but I don't know if I could go into such a strict hierarchical corporate environment.