Lauritsen: US engineers are less risk-averse while European engineers are more loyal
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Jacob Lauritsen, CTO of enterprise AI startup Legora, compares the cultural differences in recruitment and employee retention between software engineers in the United States and Europe.
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“In the US, people are generally less risk averse, so like, they'll, they'll be ready to jump on a lot of things to test. I think in Europe, people are more risk averse. People in Europe, and I'm super generalizing now, but I think Generally are more, I don't want to call them mission driven or loyal, but they're like, they really buy into the company that they work for and work with. So it takes a lot of time to convince them, but once they're convinced, they really stay.”
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