99% of CS is about communication, not your ability to code
and
most Canadian CS programs are awful to the point that if you are forced to hire one of those...
are incompatible with one another. Which is it, HN? Do you want the Indian guy who can't speak English, doesn't understand you, but can whip up a microservice architecture in a week or the Canuck with whom you can communicate, will learn from you, but does not know anything outside of Java?
> 99% of CS is about communication, not your ability to code
There is a minimum level of useful skill that is required to avoid having to spend a bunch of time training them.
Neither the Indian CS person or the new grad are great options. Ideally you want senior devs. But given the choice, I would prefer the Indian CS person as then the communications become more Product's problem than technical mentoring which is mine.
and
most Canadian CS programs are awful to the point that if you are forced to hire one of those...
are incompatible with one another. Which is it, HN? Do you want the Indian guy who can't speak English, doesn't understand you, but can whip up a microservice architecture in a week or the Canuck with whom you can communicate, will learn from you, but does not know anything outside of Java?