ASML is one of the Netherlands' most successful and profitable companies though, and I can imagine they have relatively few but high-skilled employees, especially in the engineering department.
Maybe the little value that is put in hierarchy (my boss has my respect because he is smart, never just because he is my boss). Displays of hierarchy are very badly appreciated here. We appreciate professors that want to be called by their first name. It balances things more perhaps.
There are a few exceptions in Dutch IT but, unsurprisingly, they are mostly staffed with internationals.