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> A great engineer who can’t communicate effectively with the team due to a language barrier isn’t a very useful team member. This is a much lesser bar than "s
by username90 6y ago
> A great engineer who can’t communicate effectively with the team due to a language barrier isn’t a very useful team member.
This is a much lesser bar than "strong English writing skills" that the article say you should require. "strong English writing skills" will force you to overlook most immigrants, but most of the great engineers in USA are immigrants so you'd handicap yourself by doing that.
- AmericanChopper 6y agoYou'd handicap yourself much worse by hiring people that you can't effectively communicate with.
- benhurmarcel 6y agoYou're not necessarily hiring people you're working with, even if you're hiring for your local office. Say your company has an office in Germany, well you're going to communicate with colleagues whose native language is German. Or say your company decides to select a supplier from Japan, you have to communicate with them. You can't say they shouldn't have been hired in the first place.
- AmericanChopper 6y agoThat’s a completely different topic from hiring immigrants with insufficient English skills.