Re:I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
by zamadatix on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:03PM
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It's definitely significantly more common from China. I think part of it is Indian names can often be made easier for English speakers to work with anyways + cultural trends in recent times have made having unfamiliar sounding names less of a big deal over time. One of our teams is in Bangaluru with ~100 folks and maybe 8 of them bother using anglicized names in calls/emails.
Re:I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
by palmotea on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @03:37PM
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> One of our teams is in Bangaluru with ~100 folks and maybe 8 of them bother using anglicized names in calls/emails.
Also I've gotten the impression that at least a few my coworkers in Bangalore with anglicized names are Christian. I haven't pried to confirm, but in a couple cases their names don't fit the pattern of being adopted for working with foreigners (e.g. their last name is biblical).
Re:I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
by chipsrafferty on Friday October 17, 2025 @12:27PM
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A significant amount of my coworkers from India use a shortened form of their name, though.
I've never encountered an Indian IT worker who does that, but I'd say a majority of Chinese IT workers go by an English name.