While I think it is far better to build a team within your spoken language I don't believe the environment needs to be a major concern.
That said we are working in an international environment when we use the internet so I would not exclude anyone on language basis. You may have to work harder when working with other languages to put emails etc through the language converter. It is an unfortunate fact that this works better in some languages than others.
The world is your oyster so why not make use of all of it.
While I think it is far better to build a team within your spoken language I don't believe the environment needs to be a major concern.
That said we are working in an international environment when we use the internet so I would not exclude anyone on language basis. You may have to work harder when working with other languages to put emails etc through the language converter. It is an unfortunate fact that this works better in some languages than others.
