alt Hacker NewsHierachy is the enemy of succeding projects and information flow. The more important and complex hierarchy in a culture the less likely it is to have a working software industry. Germanys and japanese endless :"old vs young, seniority vs new, internal vs external, company wide management vs project local management come to mind. Its guerilla vs army, startup vs company allover..
As someone on DACH space, the internal/external goes to the extreme of not being allowed any company infrastructure used by the internals, including some basic stuff like the coffee machine, or canteen.
I had team lunches that only happened, because naturally the team couldn't care less about the regulations, and found workarounds, like meeting by "chance" on the same place, and apparently there were no other set of tables available.