I work in a company that has offices all over the world. I do find a difference in the engineering culture of each region, but the individual contributors seem

I work in a company that has offices all over the world. I do find a difference in the engineering culture of each region, but the individual contributors seem about on par. The strong company/regional culture can have profoundly negative effects on a engineering team. My main observation is that both Asian and Eastern European developers have a very strong process/enterprise culture and the Western (US/AUS/FR) countries have a very independent/agile/startup culture. These two cultures clash a lot of the time and only one delivers fast so the business values them more. Individually however the developers seem to be on par with each other. I can find S tier people in Asia that are totally suffocated by their own engineering culture - which they embrace! I'm currently working on a culture shift for some of these people and it's really hit and miss. Some of the people feel very uncomfortable doing things "the western way" and other love it and say so.