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Time zones. The business people don’t want to have meetings very early in the morning or very late at night. And they need more than one meeting a day and those
by irrational 3y ago
Time zones. The business people don’t want to have meetings very early in the morning or very late at night. And they need more than one meeting a day and those meetings are taking place during nighttime in most of the rest of the world.
The reasoning is different for Latin America - there the issue is more of a language barrier. While a great many people in Asia and Europe already know or seek to learn English, the same isn’t as true in Latin America.
- monocasa 3y agoPretty much all devs in Latin America speak English. It's the lingua franca of software dev.
- clbrmbr 3y agoThe level of English varies, and salaries usually correlate with English proficiency just as well as with technical ability. I believe this is because devs with strong English can compete as remote workers on the global market, whereas those who are not professionally competent in English are relegated to work in firms that speak their language, or at least to have a bilingual management layer above them.
- aworks 3y agoI regularly had 7am PST calls with Europe and Russia and 7pm PST calls with China and Taiwan. Calls with both at the same time were particularly difficult to schedule.
- irrational 3y agoLike I said, way early and way late. 7am I am still getting my kids up and ready for school. 7pm we are cleaning up dinner and getting kids ready for bed.
- Teever 3y agoNow do Canada.