When recruiting in the US, for engineers that very clearly know English, and not Mandarin, I recommend the following: - dont reachout using template emails written in Mandarin - dont have phone screens with engineers that only appear to know Mandarin - dont present your offer letters in Mandarin - dont send offer negotiation email responses in Mandarin It really conveys a culture miss.
But how would you respond to them/why would you even respond to them if the initial communication was in Mandarin
I was working with a third party recruiter who was attempting to work around it
And don't fucking tell that the TC will be x and the final offer is x/2. Alibaba we're not stupid and your stingy Chinese tactics will not work for us white laowais!
I’d heard about this, but it didn’t appear to be the case, though I never accepted so maybe I wouldn’t know.
I accepted and after 6 fucking interviews they asked my expected salary and said no we can't offer you that. How about we offer you the half? I told them gtfo
Ps, emails cannot be in Mandarin, it's written in either simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese. Mandarin refers to the spoken language, Chinese refers to the written language
Good point, thanks.
Their pay is not super high. https://www.quanwei.tech/?q=Alibaba&job=
TC or GTFO
Just curious, which recruiter reached out to you?
They are all bu hao
Putonghua bu hao
They want bi.... lingual