Company has been trying to implement new engineering enterprise systems from a French company without success for the last 8 years with no end in sight.They probably outsourced the programme to an ex colony and that's why it works.
A French IT person claimed French TV does not use a quick repeat function (not important what it is) despite literally selling that in their rights... A different French IT support person claimed no one talks about the new Wes Anderson movie on the Polish internet so that's why their internet monitoring tool wasn't showing anything (there were 1600 THREADS on one movie site alone about it and it was the most anticipated movie that week. A local tool has shown 10000 TIMES more results). Her response was "no the tool is working correctly".
As for Germans - no idea but I do work with some Austrians and every time I see a flag I kinda want to puke. A company I work with does not transfer knowledge when an employee quits. So for one important report I literally have to rebuild the process from scratch because "the person that did that doesn't work here anymore" and after I asked them "but did they tell you their workflow" i simply heard the first sentence again. Those dicks are also passive agressive and complain we don't do shit on time when all delays stem from their workflow. I once had to do 4 weeks of work in... 1 day... The only reason I managed to do it was because of a magic confluence of events where that task made me probably the only person on the continent who knew everything needed to be done by memory thans to me shifting industries some time ago...
They seem utterly incapable of exchanging data between their own applications.