I have worked between US and UK companies for a long time now and I do find US companies (of the multinational sort) generally have the mindset, management and

I have worked between US and UK companies for a long time now and I do find US companies (of the multinational sort) generally have the mindset, management and engineering culture that leans more towards automation. One of the reasons, I suspect, is that US companies have to think about scale sooner or more often, so standardisation, automation and coordination needs to be adequate to allow it to succeed at scale.