[derda]

> What is wrong with IT culture at German car manufacturers?

Don't know about BMW in particular but I went to university in close vicinity to another large german car manufacturer. They do basically nothing in house. Everything is outsourced to suppliers (who often outsource their stuff again). There is enormous price pressure among the suppliers and no real room for culture. Also Java, everything is Java.

But the companies are slowly seeing that its a problem and start building up their own dev teams with "hip" offices in Berlin and so on.

Of course there are always exceptions.

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> But the companies are slowly seeing that its a problem and start building up their own dev teams with "hip" offices in Berlin and so on.

Yeah, they look exactly like this: https://welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.com/post/111400877481/t...

[ChuckNorris89]

Indeed, if you read the employee reviews on Kununu of MB's hip internal Berlin startup you'll find the same toxic culture has been carried over from the Mothership. The problem is German bigcorps don't know how to do culture in modern software. They want to carry the same level of strict manager focused micromanagement from the factory production lines to the software developers.