> I am not sure how big of a problem this is in the US/North America It is, at least in startups. At one startup I worked at, the entire engineering team in th

> I am not sure how big of a problem this is in the US/North America It is, at least in startups. At one startup I worked at, the entire engineering team in the US was Indian. At another one, my counterpart team in the US was almost entirely Chinese. IMHO though, even if the manager/lead doesn't do this intentionally, once there is a "critical mass" of one ethnicity, people of different ethnicities may hesitate to join the team. I was not in as bad a situation as OP though as we still used to conduct our meetings in a common language (English) only.