I'm not familiar with Waterloo, but I think/feel/assume that companies take on the culture of their executives, not necessarily their locales. Every company tha

I'm not familiar with Waterloo, but I think/feel/assume that companies take on the culture of their executives, not necessarily their locales. Every company that I've worked for over the past 15-20 years has largely had the "personality" of its CEO and high-level executives. If they are aloof and dismissive of "the underlings", the company as a whole will be like that. I guess my point is that assholes can be anywhere, and a lot of them end up in executive positions. If they are also incompetent, they have a tendency to bring their companies down with them.