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I'm increasingly curious about what kinds of trends there are in tech hiring outside of the English speaking world. Wouldn't the HN "Who's Hiring" thread being in English make it inherently biased in terms of global trends, especially when looking for the "next Silicon Valley" as the end goal?

Would a city like Beijing or Taipei be adequately represented here at all?

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I've just run the query and it's 6 (not this month, all time) with Beijing as a location.

My best guess for China is: they have to have something similar, although obviously not in English. They have a huge market with limited reasons to cooperate with English-speaking Internet. Also, Chinese Internet is isolated you won't see many services that are available in US or EU.

Fun fact there was an attempt to implement (copy) whoishiring.io http://www.v2ex.com/t/213945# the reason they like it but no google maps in china.

(I'm an author of this blog post)

Makes sense. I couldn't help thinking about this post from a few months back, in the context of tracking geographic shifts in startup hiring:

http://www.recode.net/2016/5/13/11592570/china-startup-tech-...

I wonder if China's tech startups would impact the data if they had a presence on HN. Kind of an interesting puzzle

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