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I wish there was a "no leetcode-ism in tech" job board

• Impossible 7y ago
  http://they.whiteboarded.me/companies-that-dont-whiteboard.html http://they.whiteboarded.me/companies-that-dont-whiteboard.h...
• neilv 7y ago
  Maybe we'd have more women and other current underrepresented groups in "tech", did the whole post-graduation jobs thing not seem to be about fratbro hazing and "culture fit". When I got my first real software engineering internship, as a teen, shortly before dotcoms, about half the engineers in my group were women. And, though they were doing difficult work on technical and systems software, there was none of the posturing, glamorizing, and self-congratulating that we often see in industry today. (In hindsight, some of the work they did is still beyond what most developers do today, though I didn't appreciate that enough at the time.) I'm sure there were industry problems such as sexism in the '90s and earlier, pre-dotcoms, and in some ways we have more awareness today, but I think we've become arrogant and cultish in other ways. Yet commoditized. And one-way leetcode-type hazing is part of that.
  • mixmastamyk 7y ago
    The big push in the media to stereotype boys as computer nerds strengthened in the early 80s. Think War Games and Whiz Kids. I didn’t notice at the time because it was what I was. Nowadays every computer “hacker” on TV is a really hot chick; maybe the pendulum could come back to center.
• cellis 7y ago
  Don’t wish, do. Nothing stopping you from building it. I’d use it :D