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> In my experience EU (particularly NL/FR/DE) engineers have a very different understanding of the level of effort work should entail

Could you elaborate on this?

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US startup folks seem to think they should work quite a bit harder in terms of time and more importantly in terms of intensity. EU folks seem to think the intensity should be lower.

My limited experience suggests intensity loosely correlates with success, but is dominated by chance.