I've seen this as well. The West coast division of the large company I worked at tended somewhat toward 'architecture astronaut' situations, highly abstract la

I've seen this as well. The West coast division of the large company I worked at tended somewhat toward 'architecture astronaut' situations, highly abstract languages and tools and was fairly cavalier toward error cases and operational considerations. The East coast was very opinionated about handling every single error case with case-specific logic, deviated very little from plain-old-C / non-threaded implementations and had copious operational input and tools/insight, etc. Both had their strengths and could get caught up in cultural blindness to the others. It was an interesting challenge.