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The article seems to rely on a lot of people who no longer work at Sephora: Jenna Melendez Terre Layton Asheley Linnenbach Nida Mitchell At Sephora (not cl
by rmk 9y ago
The article seems to rely on a lot of people who no longer work at Sephora:
Jenna Melendez
Terre Layton
Asheley Linnenbach
Nida Mitchell
At Sephora (not clear from the article, but assume so):
Mary Beth Laughton
Yvette Nichols
Also very weird, not a single programmer (female or otherwise) at Sephora is quoted in the article. The only possible exception is Layton, who had an 'engineering background' but was Product Manager at Sephora.
This article does not show anything concrete about whether Sephora actually has a large percentage of female programmers, devops, or sysadmins. Neither does it say what concrete steps they took to increase the percentage (final count: 62%, but it's not at all clear from the article whether that number is limited to people who actually program or tend to programs).
The article is complete garbage, and not worthy of HN. It does not elevate or even contribute to the discussion over female participation in software development in any way.
- whamlastxmas 9y agoThe state of most journalism these days is sad. When they so often get it so wrong in the categories I know a lot about, it makes me feel like they get it wrong in all the categories all the time.
- tjalfi 9y agoMichael Crichton called this the Gell-Mann amnesia effect[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5203871 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5203871