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So what percentage of male programmers that you worked with were excellent?

• mikekchar 11y ago
  Obviously there is a range of abilities. I would say that all except one person I know at the very top end of the range were male. If I extend the range down to where I would include the women that I previously called "excellent", I think that would include about half of the men I've worked with. Basically, good solid developers who could be trusted to get things done, knew enough to know what they did and didn't really understand, and could find out the things they didn't understand in a relatively short time frame. So for the women I know, the distribution seems to be compressed and shifted to the right a bit. I have absolutely no idea if that matches with other people's experience. Or, indeed, if my experience with male workers matches their experience.
  • jacalata 11y ago
    I was wondering if your experience backed up the theory I've heard that men are happy to be average programmers but women who aren't excellent don't stay in the profession. Sounds like it does.