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How NexGen Engineering Made Hearing Loss a Career Strength
NexGen Engineering, a mid-size tech firm in Austin, discovered that its deaf engineers were consistently outperforming hearing colleagues in spotting visual anomalies in complex data sets. Instead of retrofitting accommodations, the company redesigned its entire communication system around visual thinking — replacing audio alerts with light arrays, embedding sign-language interpreters into every team meeting, and building a text-first collaboration platform. The result: a 40 percent increase in bug detection speed and a 30 percent drop in turnover among all engineers. This episode breaks down…
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