I'm a Swede who used to work with Americans. These are the main differences I saw in our working cultures.

• Sofia Brandt used to work for Accenture before becoming a founder and lives in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Brandt shares the aspects of Swedish work culture that might surprise people. 
•  Swedes get 480 days of parental leave that can be split between couples and find bragging uncouth. 

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Sofia Brandt, cofounder of the therapy app Ally, who lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

I worked at Accenture for seven years, primarily with American and Swedish corporations, before founding my own startup, a therapy app called Ally.