I work in the USA at a fully remote agency, and my company has a small offshore team of 3 Ukrainian developers. Are we being discriminatory because all our offshore devs are in Ukraine, when we could have hired anyone globally?
I don't think so. We originally looked at a global pool of applicants for the first hire, and the guy we chose just happened to be Ukrainian. He ended up being great, and when we wanted to scale up and make another hire he referred two people he knew from his local community, who we also were impressed with and hired. Since they are all in the same area they get together and collaborate on issues (and on english translations) and so they become an even more productive team that we love working with.
Despite being really smart and technically capable you can tell that using English is a bit of a burden, so being able to use their native language when breaking out into groups together I think helps.
I don't think so. We originally looked at a global pool of applicants for the first hire, and the guy we chose just happened to be Ukrainian. He ended up being great, and when we wanted to scale up and make another hire he referred two people he knew from his local community, who we also were impressed with and hired. Since they are all in the same area they get together and collaborate on issues (and on english translations) and so they become an even more productive team that we love working with.
Despite being really smart and technically capable you can tell that using English is a bit of a burden, so being able to use their native language when breaking out into groups together I think helps.