German company, operations worldwide. Language is English. English docs, English presentations. Meetings are done in German unless a non-German sits in. Then,

German company, operations worldwide. Language is English. English docs, English presentations. Meetings are done in German unless a non-German sits in. Then, it is done in English. I can't even begin to explain how awkward it is to see source code once in a great while where the dev used German words as variable names. Good luck trying to get a colleague to understand what'S going on if he doesn't speak German. In short, you write in English so the lion share of the world can read it. And if people really have a question, they should be able to express that in English. What good does it to post that question in a language that can only be read by a fraction of the developer community? And with that in mind, I also expect others, like Chinese devs to hand over source code with English variable and class names. Otherwise, again, who do they expect would be able to work with the code if the naming of things don't make sense?