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I am (perhaps naively) encouraged at the familiarity of these engineers' daily gripes. That's progress, haha.

• StargazyPi 10y ago
  Ain't it great? It's always alarming to read stories such as Susan Fowler's, that remind you sexism is still out there in force, in places. But it's great to read things like this, which implies at least a good chunk of fellow female devs are having the freedom to leave because their company doesn't care about software quality. As you said, progress!
• ck425 10y ago
  Hmm my takeaway from the familiarity was that it's harder for woman to manage up, which sucks. :(
  • warcher 10y ago
    I'm curious if you have a piece of the article that highlights that for you. I admit to skimming through it and thinking "Yeah, that's pretty much the gig." Engineering is a hard job, there's no two ways about it. Tech managers have a doubly hard job, having to navigate a tech stack well enough to lead their team and the people skills to manage all their special snowflake devs on one hand (nothing gender or age related, I love all my lil babies, even the ones with gandalf beards and strong opinions on Richard Stallman) and some very difficult strategic objectives on the other. People who can be effective in that role are hard to find.
    • ec109685 10y ago
      > If a company’s leadership feels too tightly knit – where all the managers and founders are friends that aren’t open to critical feedback from employees – I won’t even try to work out the issue before leaving While not completely gender specific, I think that speaks to difficulty managing up.