Finally Understanding SE's Decision Making (And Why It Won't Change)

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Yeah but they are completely incapable of hiring anyone who isn't Japanese because apparently the language barrier is too strong lmao

It takes about 1100 hours to become fluent in Polish. On average, it takes at least twice that long to learn Japanese or Chinese. Alphabets are a primary problem. Go figure.

So, who would you be more willing to hire, an English-only speaker with no idea what このガイドの目的は、プログラマーにコードを書くための要件を知らせることです。 (not especially functional Japanese, mind you) means outside of Google Translate, or someone who can actually read coding specifications in Japanese?

More importantly, why should a decidedly Japanese company tailor their most important private intellectual property to an English-only programmer just because ... globalization?