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Re:What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech by shultays on Monday October 12, 2015 @03:03AM (#10372951)
> A was male, 21 years old, a stoner and business school drop-out with a portfolio consisting of a Java tower defense game.

> B was female, 30 years old, with several years experience doing QA on computer peripheral drivers who had re-trained herself as a web developer and had a Rails StackOverflow clone and a Meteor KhanAcademy clone for her portfolio.

> A got offered a six-figure full time position.

> B got offered an internship.

Yeah, sorry but that is a lie

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Re:What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech by ashworth on Monday October 12, 2015 @06:15AM (#10373555)
I wish it was a lie, but it is not.

Anyway, the story ends well. B is a front-end engineer at Google now, A didn't take the offer and went to a different start-up.

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