Codeman's Holiday

[zedmanauk]

“Welcome to the very first episode of Codeman’s  Holiday, where we take a random programmer from the US and have him  work in a completely foreign country.  Today, we meet Todd from San  Jose, who works for LinkedIn in his normal job and who has taken time  off to join us on this show.  Welcome, Todd.”

“Thanks, Gary.”

“So, are you excited to

Comments

[pixiebelle]

This was fun. My partner is a programmer from France, and he’s often worked in Silicon Valley too. Even today, he mentioned some coworkers wanting to meet me and I asked if they spoke English. He reminded me that everyone at his French company is required to speak English, that’s the norm in the programming community.

[d0gs]

Very fun take on this topic! The descriptions were great!

[karmasoup]

It really is becoming a smaller world every day, isn't it?

[halfshellvenus]

This could be MY life, though I've never been to our company's Bangalore office. But the tools across the profession are really similar, and yes-- the programming code itself is in English, which means you need the English-language keyboard, so the comments are in English too. When there ARE comments.

Which is a problem among programmers in ALL cultures. ;)