It depends on your environment/ surrounding people and the circumstances in which you find yourself in. I worked with 2 different ​Companies in India. One was a Government organisation and the other was an International Multi Nationality organisation. Both Companies are large employers in their respective industries. Company 1 was an National private-Govt Insurance company- highly bureaucratic and patriarchal and political in terms of the heirarchy of reporting, toxic obsession with respect based on gender, age, titles and salary, arrogance and egotistical thought process and way of influencing people to do work and dangerously reactive employees that would retaliate through work at the slightest perceived insult. In this case it was like walking on eggshells because anything I said or did could be interpreted as insensitive. (Even not offering your lunch to your team could result in a bad rating!)It also exposed huge loopholes and ambiguity in Company HR policy and SOPs and promotion process.( stack ranking for a huge financially stagnant corporation of 18.000 employees!) perhaps it was backed by the national bank and hence performance did not matter..recipe for carnage.

Company 2 was a London based company that employed people all over the world. Teams were multi Kulti and flat heirarchies were established. I worked with an Indian boss, a Swedish boss, a Lebanese boss & a Taiwanese supervisor. The motto was be professional no confrontational behaviour with anyone, talk about work and that was it. I never had an incident here as it was clear how one had to behave with everyone as the company had a strict code of conduct. That does not mean there is no office politics. It's just played politely via ignoring, late replies etc but definitely nowhere near Company 1 levels!