That wasn't my experience of working in a large insurer in Switzerland (admittedly just one company but I spoke to people who worked in other ones). I found th

That wasn't my experience of working in a large insurer in Switzerland (admittedly just one company but I spoke to people who worked in other ones). I found the Swiss staff I dealt with didn't have the mental flexibility to deal with the sometimes chaotic world of managing a large IT system. They could cope if it was something they understood but if it was a completely new problem they were generally at a loss. They tried to replace the contractors from my company three or four times and always ended up asking for them back after a month or two. Obviously this is a generalisation based on working in one place but as I found Switzerland very rule based I wondered if that extended to their problem solving.