I am going to talk about one that I have colleagues that worked here in Sweden: Skype It was a successful startup but $8.5 Billion is a lot of cash. I heard t

I am going to talk about one that I have colleagues that worked here in Sweden: Skype It was a successful startup but $8.5 Billion is a lot of cash. I heard that developers were not happy with Microsoft way. Promotions/Pay/etc. became a competition between colleagues instead of a collaboration. Of course in that case my colleague leaved the company, maybe other people really liked it that way and stayed. But, my personal experience is similar. USA companies want employees competing for recognition instead of collaborating to compete with other companies.