It isn’t, but since we were talking about China anyways. Note that many Microsoft employees (as in most big tech companies) even in the states aren’t American, which is already quite different from Chinese tech companies. As for Europe, my colleagues in Cambridge conducted most of their business in English and most of the management was from Europe (not necessarily the UK). We didn’t have much presence in the continent.

Upvoted you as I don't think people should be downvoted especially for misunderstanding/misinterpreting what someone said..

Thank you. Although to be honest, I did not misunderstand OP. My comment was just a lazy (and therefore impolite) way to point out that things may be different in China compared to Europe and that OP's comment may not be a relevant response. As such my comment may actually deserve downvotes. I will try to do better in the future.

Ah, thanks for the honesty. I wish some days when commenting I had actually taken a break from HN due to the lesser quality, less thoughtful replies I'll make.

I'm going to pretend the downvotes for the above comment was done in humour, in the irony that I misunderstood what OP meant, then getting downvoted..