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Language/education/infrastructure barrier in Latin America, for some countries at least. Situation is improving as of late but a large skill gap both in terms o
by jorblumesea 5y ago
Language/education/infrastructure barrier in Latin America, for some countries at least. Situation is improving as of late but a large skill gap both in terms of education and foreign lang skills (English). Hiring in India was painful for some reasons, but everyone spoke English and education was top level due to intense competition.
Most of Latin America is only roughly overlapping with US timezones. The western most countries (Ecuador for example) are basically EST time, but Brazil is closer to GMT.
- krasin 5y agoI have a first hand experience working with a great team at Trinidad and Tobago. Maybe we got lucky in finding them, but I've got an impression that good universities exist and therefore there's a steady supply of capable new grads. As for timezone, Trinidad and Tobago is EST+1, Lima (Peru) is EST, and Brazil is EST+2. That gives much more workday overlap than even Western Europe.
- jorblumesea 5y agoOverall, Latin America has way less STEM graduates per capita than they need and is absolutely unable to fill the demand. Some countries might fare better than others but the trend is overall that most companies will end up competing for the few graduates that do exist. The article also pointed this out. https://tcdata360.worldbank.org/indicators/h77528693?country=USA&indicator=40334&countries=BRA,TTO,ARG,ECU&viz=line_chart&years=2013,2020 https://tcdata360.worldbank.org/indicators/h77528693?country... Many tech companies are West coast so you're +5 hours and then...why not Europe?
- laurencerowe 5y agoHaving 3 hours of overlap during the regular work day is going to be much easier than no overlap during the normal work day and people having to work early/late for meetings.
- 8note 5y agoLanguage/education/infrastructure are a lot easier to change that timezone, at least