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" I wonder if her four years were really research for a planned book." Given that she worked at various startups in tech for four years, and the classic whiteb

" I wonder if her four years were really research for a planned book." Given that she worked at various startups in tech for four years, and the classic whiteboard/algo/coding/etc. required, that's quite a bar purely for a single book.

ChrisMarshallNY 7y ago
She wasn’t a coder.
- username90 7y ago
  This is so interesting, whenever I hear about a woman in tech people (including me) usually assume they have a technical role, but statistics say that most women in tech doesn't.
  - ghaff 7y ago
    For obvious reasons, a lot of people here tend to equate jobs at tech companies with software engineering. But a ton of jobs in tech aren't primarily about writing code and may not involve writing code at all, even if they do often require some understanding of relevant technologies at some level. This is true generally. However, it's also the case that gender ratios can be quite different for different roles.
    - ChrisMarshallNY 7y ago
      Some of the best coders I ever worked with were women. I worked for a Japanese company, and the engineering floors probably had about 40% women. That's not necessarily for a positive reason, but I won't get into that. Suffice it to say that I worked with quite a few brilliant, disciplined and well-educated women. At my company, everyone in Tokyo had at least a Masters' degree (it was a marquée company), and there were a lot of Ph.Ds around. In her case, I think she was in customer support, but she talks about having a [rather unsuccessful] crash course in JavaScript.
      - ghaff 7y ago
        To be clear, I'm absolutely not saying otherwise. Just saying that a lot of people at tech companies in general are not coders.
      - redis_mlc 7y ago
        1) Japan is an outlier is every cultural aspect compared to the West. HN is not a Japanese forum. 2) Japan is notorious for low wages for software. So what you're really saying is that one demographic willingly accepts being underpaid. That doesn't sound brilliant to me.
        ChrisMarshallNY 7y ago
        I have no idea why you made that post.

ChrisMarshallNY 7y ago

She wasn’t a coder.

username90 7y ago
This is so interesting, whenever I hear about a woman in tech people (including me) usually assume they have a technical role, but statistics say that most women in tech doesn't.
- ghaff 7y ago
  For obvious reasons, a lot of people here tend to equate jobs at tech companies with software engineering. But a ton of jobs in tech aren't primarily about writing code and may not involve writing code at all, even if they do often require some understanding of relevant technologies at some level. This is true generally. However, it's also the case that gender ratios can be quite different for different roles.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 7y ago
    Some of the best coders I ever worked with were women. I worked for a Japanese company, and the engineering floors probably had about 40% women. That's not necessarily for a positive reason, but I won't get into that. Suffice it to say that I worked with quite a few brilliant, disciplined and well-educated women. At my company, everyone in Tokyo had at least a Masters' degree (it was a marquée company), and there were a lot of Ph.Ds around. In her case, I think she was in customer support, but she talks about having a [rather unsuccessful] crash course in JavaScript.
    - ghaff 7y ago
      To be clear, I'm absolutely not saying otherwise. Just saying that a lot of people at tech companies in general are not coders.
    - redis_mlc 7y ago
      1) Japan is an outlier is every cultural aspect compared to the West. HN is not a Japanese forum. 2) Japan is notorious for low wages for software. So what you're really saying is that one demographic willingly accepts being underpaid. That doesn't sound brilliant to me.
      - ChrisMarshallNY 7y ago
        I have no idea why you made that post.