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0 pointsPopsiclePete7y ago0 comments

>"Can't understand their accent" _is_ discriminatory. Please don't ever recommend against a candidate for that.

Sorry, I disagree. A team is more than just a bunch of automatons punching the keyboard.

If I can't understand what you're telling me, if you can't communicate your ideas, if nobody can understand what you're saying, if everything needs to be explained multiple times, and/or slowly, it becomes exhausting to work with a person like that.

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dbt007y ago

If someone can't communicate their knowledge and skills that's one problem, and a very common one with or without an accent barrier.

If someone can communicate their ideas and do the job and you don't want to hire them to avoid having to actually expend effort in communicating, that's a different problem, and it's not theirs.

joesb7y ago

If you can't understand them, then they can't do their job. The one who have accent also have to expend effort in communicating, too.

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