Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry

Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by swayvil on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @11:54AM (#11581563)

I have yet to meet a professional plumber who is female, and I've met a lot of plumbers (I'm in construction). Just saying, it's jarring.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by luisdaniel12 on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @11:56AM (#11581585)

Yeah, it's a pipe line problem.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by madelinecameron on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @12:13PM (#11581742)

Sounds like something a plumber should fix.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by luso_brazilian on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @12:01PM (#11581636)

My thoughts exactly, although that could be a regional thing.

In Portugal I was very amazed by the large amount of women driving buses, taxis and garbage trucks (for instance). Back in Brazil I must have seen at most five or six but in Portugal it is a very common sight.

Now for this kind of specialized trade jobs like plumbers, electricians and auto mechanics I personally never seen a woman doing it in both sides of the pond.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by personlurking on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @12:19PM (#11581800)

Interesting. I live in Portugal and lived in Brazil, but almost never see (have seen) women in these roles.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by askyourmother on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @12:01PM (#11581632)

http://www.stopcocks.uk/plumber-city-of-london/

http://www.princessplumbing.co.uk/about.html

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Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by swayvil on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @12:05PM (#11581664)

That's some good googling there askyourmother

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Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by zerr on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @12:08PM (#11581696)

It's common e.g. in Poland, where men left for work in UK, Germany.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by Grishnakh on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @04:29PM (#11584249)

Are you saying there's a large glut of hot, single women in Poland? Hmmm.... I wonder if there's any companies there hiring software engineers.

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