As a preface, English is not my boss’s first language. He is originally from India, and I don’t know how pronouns are used in his first language. I work on a remote software engineering team.

I have noticed recently that my boss always refers to hypothetical people as “he”. For example, we are hiring right now now and we are talking a lot about candidates. He will say thinks like “When interviewing a candidate, he should know x/y/z”.

It sort of bothers me, but I also don’t think he means anything malicious by this. He seems like a generally understanding person, and it could just be a language barrier thing.

It’s also worth noting that I am very new at my company. Should I say something to him?

Edit: I also want to point out that I am a bit worried about coming across as condescending, like I’m some elitist American trying to “fix” his English. I’m much younger (22M).