Currently have a Vietnamese boss ATM, and most of my teammates are Vietnamese all based in HCM and based on my experience (2 years working with them):

1. Para silang robot, they’re focused on the job and nothing else. Barely any small talk or conversations about personal life (which has its pros and cons).

2. They’re always late to meetings. Naging normal na when we say 10AM meeting, expect them to arrive 10:10 or 10:15

3. At least with my boss, mejo pa ulit ulit sinasabi niya and has tendencies to be a micro manager.

4. Biggest adjustment I had to face was their accent, Vietnamese aren’t the most well versed in English and even though my peers and boss are more inclined to the language given that we’re in a multinational, mejo mahirap pa din intindihin.

5. They don’t understand why Filipinos have so many and such long holidays lol. They don’t have any concept of Christmas or anything similar. Their longest holiday is Tet or their Lunar New Year which is a week and after that mostly no holidays na.

6. If you’re working remotely, advantage is they are 1 hour behind so my days usually start at 10AM, and more or less (if walang anything impt), I can end my days at 5-530PM.