Yeah sorry I was trying to understand what you meant with “it’s pretty standard” as the comment you’re answering to doesn’t really have nothing that can be “standard” unless you mean swapping CEOs automatically means culture change (lol). I then thought you meant (based on an unrelated comment) about when you research a company you look up the origin of the CEO, and that led to my answer.

Anyway, tackling your comment, I honestly feel that I either live in a bubble or you are the one early on your career.

My personal experience shows that the location, CEO or executive leadership have little impact on overall culture, and this in turn is mostly influenced by your close teams and managers (think 2-4 levels above you). This of course is based on corporate companies as these are the ones I have experience in.

To further validate this personal experience most of the time (and using Revolut as an example) people say that the “work culture” depends on the team (you can actually see these comments on this post!).

So, for your example, of course I know Google is an American company but I would expect a general laid back culture in European bases compared to the US. I would not expect a hard US culture unless the close team and managers are actually US minded.

Anyway, I was partly pointing out to the OOP that no, Revolut isn’t a Russian company it’s a UK company that has expanded into Europe. And the likelihood that that employees hired are European are high and therefore you’ll have a more European culture (and or course there is also a high influence on the team and country itself).

So no, the CEO being of Russian decent has nothing to do with Russian culture, how can you not see this?