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I've even done several hiring intensives for people from there 3 or 4 years ago.
People underestimate cultural difference and even pretend they don't exist. Even within a culture there are people who don't fit into the dominant cultural values and way of working. A big part of diversity and inclusion is addressing that. This becomes an even bigger problem when dealing with other cultures. And you might find that other cultures don't value diversity and inclusion as much as n American corporate cu…
For example Eastern Europe is getting a lot of outsourcing. Yet there’s zero d&i initiatives targeting that region.
Same goes for Africa. I’ve seen zero d&i initiatives To better integrate those living in Africa.
Disappointed to see no mention of Costa Rica. At my last company, about half of our dev team was from CR and they kicked ass. They got rid of the army in 1948 and redirected the funds into education, transforming it into a high tech hub.
That is great! Latin american are still suspiciously uncommon in tech so there is definitely a neglected talent pool. That illustrates one of the few good traits of capitalism: discrimination pushing you to miss on good candidates (women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, etc) is a drop in profit that can be exploited by other companies and that, thus, should disapear with time (at least in theory, in practice not all…
I am surprised that it took so long to realize that hiring people in the same time zone is better for productivity. I am saying it as someone who spent N years working for an American company from Moscow (~11 hours difference) and had to sleep in the office frequently to get at least some things done (like, code reviews approved by the team members in the main office).
People underestimate cultural difference and even pretend they don't exist. Even within a culture there are people who don't fit into the dominant cultural values and way of working. A big part of diversity and inclusion is addressing that. This becomes an even bigger problem when dealing with other cultures. And you might find that other cultures don't value diversity and inclusion as much as n American corporate cu…
The tech industry is VERY used to working with people from multiple cultures and backgrounds. Teams where people are immigrants from 5 different countries is fairly common.
IMO I really want tech companies to start hiring in latin america more just for time zone reasons. If India & China was in south america a lot of the pain of having offices from those regions would go away. I've even done several hiring intensives for people from there 3 or 4 years ago.
IMO I really want tech companies to start hiring in latin america more just for time zone reasons. If India & China was in south america a lot of the pain of having offices from those regions would go away. I've even done several hiring intensives for people from there 3 or 4 years ago.
As someone who works on west coast time, it’s easy for me to forget that Latin America is largely east of the continental US. Not an issue for remote work, but something that caught me off guard when I started working with people living in that continent.