Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People
by tptacek on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:53PM
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I'm deliberately oversimplifying. If you:
1. Like sports
2. Wear expensive or formal clothing
3. Dislike video games
4. Are uninterested in science fiction
5. Don't drink
6. Are over 50
... you'll find valley software development culturally inhospitable. Obviously, lots of well-dressed 50 year old baseball fans have programming jobs. But those people don't "read" as software developers, and if you take those people and strip away their resumes, they will underperform people that don't have those characteristics in software development interviews.
1. Like sports
2. Wear expensive or formal clothing
3. Dislike video games
4. Are uninterested in science fiction
5. Don't drink
6. Are over 50
... you'll find valley software development culturally inhospitable. Obviously, lots of well-dressed 50 year old baseball fans have programming jobs. But those people don't "read" as software developers, and if you take those people and strip away their resumes, they will underperform people that don't have those characteristics in software development interviews.