Is There a Language Barrier?

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Most European tech companies and a lot of American tech companies will have talent remote these days in Eastern European countries without almost any barrier because English is commonly spoken. So people there I feel like there's a country for to be valuable. They need to develop a stronger tie to the rest of the world is how I feel. And I wanted to do what I can help and to me that's building the more bridge between those two sides of the ocean.

Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins, pulls back the curtain on building tech companies in Japan. He shares his lessons from Cloudbees and how building two very different engineering organizations from the ground up showed him the importance of diversity in engineering teams.

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