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Judging by my experience over a number of years in industry, the most important aspect is to understand the cultural expectations of the people you are working
by megaman22 8y ago
Judging by my experience over a number of years in industry, the most important aspect is to understand the cultural expectations of the people you are working with.
Working with a north-east US team can be wildly different than a Southeast US team, or a west coast US team. Let alone a Toronto CA team, vs Quebec, CA, or UK or Australia, or Germans, or Dutch or Poles, or Indians from New Delhi vs folks from Bangalore.
People work differently, and culture and communication is wildly different.
- theossuary 8y agoThis is really interesting to me, do you have any examples you can think of to illustrate this? Definitely something where I don't even know what I don't know, but it seems so important especially in recent times.
- megaman22 8y agoI mean, it's stereotypical, but if an Indian colleague drops a "kindly do the needful" on most Americans, that will be met with consternation and confusion. The other big issue I've seen is around scheduling meetings with inappropriate lead times. I've come in too many times on monday mornings at 9 AM to see angry emails about not attending a meeting at 8 AM, when the meeting invitation was sent 2AM.