I worked for OnePlus a few years ago, managing its Amazon account

That doesnt make sense as an example. Nearly everyone on HN would be aware of the great seal of the United States? That all formal diplomatic letters are still sealed with to this very day, without exception. Maybe it’s just a mental shock that HQ would demand that level of formality for more mundane things?

Appreciate the insight. I'm really quite curious about the inverse of this from the US. HNers who don't live in the US but have worked for a US company trying to do business in local markets: what weird US-centric idiosyncrasies have you seen companies and US-based leadership foisting upon local markets?

I worked in the OPPO and OnePlus HQ in Shenzhen. When I had contracts to sign, I wrote my own signature and then I had to go to some procurement person and get them to stamp it with a seal.

My Nothing Phone(3) is running pretty well with a sillicon-carbon battery. Bought it on Amazon, so not sure if it's a global model or US specific but it works great.

> The culture leaned heavily toward 996: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week Why stay there even ONE week, unless you were very senior?

>Probably the most ridiculous example was an internal invoice or payment-submission portal. It was awful to use, but the terminology was even stranger. A submission apparently needed to be “signed” and then “sealed.” The fapiao system has improved but still exists unfortunately.

As someone who works/worked for all major Chinese smartphone brands (and some major vacuum brands) over years I can tell you this is no OnePlus specific, 996 is just Chinese standard. I remember back when I lived in China some of my flatmates slept in work overnight since it was encouraged, you save time in commuting. I worked also on OP project which was handled separately from O/Rm and V/IQ, but I find in general approach of these companies very amateurish when it comes down to providing reference materials, though it could be even worse, unnamed company selling mostly in India is disaster, now they use AI to localize their phones, you are suppose to check it with no screenshots, no description, so clearly can't even check it properly, so apparently AI is doing fine since you can't really report worries anyway. And if you will drive EV from the biggest CN EV company expect same, they a…