Bad diversity dynamics, talent drain. A talker's company. Doers suffer - Anonymous employee Scania Employee Review

First, diversity: the racial ceiling at my place is so low that many impactful decisions are informally made in Swedish, perhaps partly because too much office politics and small talks up at a certain level happens in Swedish. There are indeed some upward opportunities for non-Swedes if you're willing to take on one of those ugliest of problems that no one wants to touch, but you have a disadvantaged risk-reward profile in your undertaking. There is a strange kind of talent drain: talent exists but either nobody listens to them, or they quit the doer camp to join the talker camp because they surely are smart enough to recognize the dynamics. There is officially upward mobility tracks for technical people to counter exactly this problem, but the system doesn't seem to be very effective because engineers are more often evaluated by the flashiness of their work than the often quieter technical excellence.