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Companies I consult are looking all over Europe and have employer branding efforts running in the whole of the EU.
by _Codemonkeyism 9y ago
Companies I consult are looking all over Europe and have employer branding efforts running in the whole of the EU.
- ccozan 9y ago..and they still require fluent spoken German! This drives me crazy. I could fill a lot of open positions right now. Oops, your candidate does't speak German. I really really don't understand.
- iagooar 9y agoSorry, that people who speak their own language in their own country bother you so much.
- kermitfrog 9y agoWhere are you looking? In Berlin startups often have english-speaking engineering teams.
- skgoa 9y agoThat's just not true in many companies nowadays. E.g. in the automotive industry (which is 1/7 of the german economy) I have a growing number of colleagues who don't speak a word of German.
- ccozan 9y agoWell "growing numbers" vs. reall acceptance is quite a long way. Possibly in Berlin, where is more alien friendly, to be able to get any job in English, in south, especiall south Bayern is quite difficult, even in IT ( which I really don't understant). Might be if all customers are in Germany, then there will be a gap somewhere, which someone has to fill and they don't really want or can. In bigger companies ( like automotive, or even Siemens ), they do have customers and organisation from all over the world and English is the primary documentation and also common language. I only wanted to say, that given a perfect candidate for a position, it might be rejected because it doesn't speak German.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoMany startup companies in Berlin are English speaking as their daily operations. The point is if the majority of people are native German speakers you take a major productivity hit moving to English, say 10% which increases your costs and demand for people.