Welcome to The Innovation Engineer Podcast, your favorite place for picking brains of your favorite engineers. What's it like working for an American company? We both have some experience working with and for Americans. Let's exchange our most significant and craziest stories.

0:00 Intro
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2:14 Why did Tarek visit the Silicon Valley
3:11 If you are not working with AI, you are doing something wrong
3:30 John Deere is becoming a mayor AI company
4:24 Why don’t you join an American company?
5:02 They are successful, so they must do something right
7:45 They aim for the moon and the will to achieve things
8:57 German companies work differently - all those laws!
14:40 Everybody is gettings promotions all the timer
15:42 Lead from top to down
20:17 Who has problems with his candid communication style?!
24:39 The level of sensitivity in the US is on a different scale
25:22 A German developer who is a really dirty mouth
26:37 This language hurts his ears
28:55 The Americans are one step ahead of Europe
32:20 There are words which don’t belong in a professional environment
34:11 Every time I talk about vacation - The sad truth about American thinking
36:19 Adjusting to the American work load
37:18 The reason Waschi would not move to the US
38:05 Working more would make me less productive
38:28 You have to work 16h in a row vs. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
40:20 I only hire lazy people because they think about the most efficient ways

The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
https://thenextweb.com/news/john-deer...
https://avdi.codes/the-three-virtues/