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No offense but you sound like someone who got burned. > Once you leave a job you are basically an entry level programmer again. What I mean is if you stay some

No offense but you sound like someone who got burned. > Once you leave a job you are basically an entry level programmer again. What I mean is if you stay somewhere 5 years using on set of technologies, you'll find that you are not qualified for the vast amount of open positions that use other technologies. I doubt this is true for your average Java/Python/C# developer or even a powershell person. > At the new job, the culture will be white make dominated, if not age < 32 white male dominated. What does this have to do with anything related to the first point? > As for mentor ship, the culture of most places dictate that the most experienced mentor who that like. Females are usually excluded from this group and made to handle the bug list and given minor tasks. This is still true at some companies, but I think it is changing far and wide in the US. I've met some amazingly gifted female developers, some terrible. I've met amazing male devs and terrible ones too. When we become blind to that bias and we have a good diversity on a team, I find teams become pretty cool to be apart of, especially when we have a mindset of mentoring.

externalreality 8y ago
>No offense but you sound like someone who got burned. No offense taken. If I didn't get burned (I guessed "burned" means to have observed this first hand countless times over 15 years in the industry), then how would I know it to be true? > I doubt this is true for your average Java/Python/C# developer or even a powershell person. You can know Java, but if the team is using mongo and you don't know mongo, then there is a problem - if you know java and mongo - but there is a react front-end, then there is a problem... get my drift. The industry is going with a "experience doesn't count - you have to know what I know or be good at faking it" kind of theme. It very prevalent. > What does this have to do with anything related to the first point? I has to do with the article. Did you read it? > This is still true at some companies, but I think it is changing... "Changing" isn't good enough. Think about something horrible , anything, would you want it to be "changing", or would you want it changed?
- aiisjustanif 8y ago
  As a minority, I guess I'll just have to agree to disagree.

externalreality 8y ago

>No offense but you sound like someone who got burned. No offense taken. If I didn't get burned (I guessed "burned" means to have observed this first hand countless times over 15 years in the industry), then how would I know it to be true? > I doubt this is true for your average Java/Python/C# developer or even a powershell person. You can know Java, but if the team is using mongo and you don't know mongo, then there is a problem - if you know java and mongo - but there is a react front-end, then there is a problem... get my drift. The industry is going with a "experience doesn't count - you have to know what I know or be good at faking it" kind of theme. It very prevalent. > What does this have to do with anything related to the first point? I has to do with the article. Did you read it? > This is still true at some companies, but I think it is changing... "Changing" isn't good enough. Think about something horrible , anything, would you want it to be "changing", or would you want it changed?

aiisjustanif 8y ago
As a minority, I guess I'll just have to agree to disagree.