Vendor vs Service Provider- work culture difference

I recently moved to Service Provider from Vendor and i am surprised with work culture. Service provider is more bureaucratic. Its take lot of hoops to get through to get actual work done. Its always about just talks about process improvement,SLA,KPIs but actual technical work is minimal. Problem is not the talks ,even after so many calls ,things just doesnt move forward. I spent almost 50-60% time in meetings in which i should not be even part of...but the whole team is invited to those so that if anyone wants to speak. Vendor side i agree that you are restricted to one vendor product line but with so many of customers,its different challenges every day. With SP even thought multi vendor products in network,there are people with specific vendor skill set mostly handles those challenges individually and nothing else. My colleagues from vendor side were very surprised that i am leaving vendor to join SP. I didnt realize the gravity of that as its first switch that i was doing in so many years for pay raise. Is this the common experience of people out there who worked on both sides? I feel like after a 8 mnths or a year,i should look for vendor again... #cisco #nokia #junipernetworks #paloaltonetworks #AT&T #tmobile #verizon