Much of this is very good advice for people working in tech. It's interesting that it arises from survival tips for women in tech (more on that in a moment). "

Much of this is very good advice for people working in tech. It's interesting that it arises from survival tips for women in tech (more on that in a moment). "Document your work" is very, very important. And be very careful about how documenting your work can go sideways. For instance, I once wrote extensive documentation for a wiki. The documentation was moved during a reasonable re-org of the wiki, but the new "bye-line" was now the person who restructured the wiki. I don't think there was anything insidious going on there, but it can happen. Another thing is when a GitHub repository is moved, or a new team is involved. Sometimes it makes sense to just create a new repo from scratch, but when it happens, your name and history may be removed from your code. I think a lot of this may simply be due to the immaturity of our field (literally and figuratively). Even if it isn't sinister, in most publishing, it's a big deal to take a writer's name off a piece and replace it with whoever copy and pasted the piece to a new location. Unfortunately, this does happen with code and documentation quite often. It's also wise to document in multiple places - write up a blog post, do an in office presentation with slides, speak at a conference if you can. All this is very good advice. It is inconceivable to me that an actual company event would take place at a strip club, and events that would require dressing in a bathing suite seem unlikely. A sauna? Woah. This is a thing? (NOTE: I'm kinda old for tech). Well... I suppose river rafting is a possibility. I'm in my late 40s, and I spent my earlier years in large boring corps or universities. When a startup shows a large group photo of a group of 20 somethings on a weekend hiking trip, I get it, it means older people who coach their kid's baseball team on the weekend should probably look for a job elsewhere. I've yet to see a big picture of them all in the sauna, though. Yikes. There's a lot of good general info here. But on to the interesting thing about women in tech I mentioned above. It's possible to see the problems afflicting women in tech as specifically afflicting women - that it's an bro-tastic place for men, but crappy for women. Another way to see it is that the problems women experience shine a particularly bright light on what is so horrible about this industry. I think a big part of the problem is that there is a billion dollar industry around convincing young people that tech is a wonderful career and the only problem is that there's a shortage of people who realize how wonderful it is and want to become software developers in Silicon Valley. The reality is that there's something very rotten in tech. I certainly don't think it's a paradise for men, by a long shot, but I also don't have any real trouble believing that what's already unpleasant enough for the gander is particularly crap-tastic for the goose.