Born-bred NY-expat Israeli here, working for a West Coast Big Tech company. New York (probably all US East) and Israeli cultures are fairly analogous. In just

Born-bred NY-expat Israeli here, working for a West Coast Big Tech company. New York (probably all US East) and Israeli cultures are fairly analogous. In just 3 extra timezones, West Coast workplace culture is light years away. Many of my Israeli colleagues have no patience for the soft-pedaled corporate standard double talk (which they would call "PC"), and think that all US workplaces are like this. They have a hard time believing that my NY experience was just like our local Tel Aviv office.