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Your average insurance company's software team behaves like this? Whilst tweaking the payroll software? Because, if you really, really want gender parity, most
by pinkfoot 6y ago
Your average insurance company's software team behaves like this? Whilst tweaking the payroll software?
Because, if you really, really want gender parity, most programmers don't work at Uber or Snapchat. They work in mundane jobs at faceless companies.
Even more so when you leave the USA. (Since this is about principle).
- pydry 6y agoFuck yeah it does. Actually I think it's the slightly below average places that are some of the worst. I've tended to find that technical quality correlates to better behavior, probably because insecurity is what drives so much of it. In my experience, those below average places where people tweak payroll software (where I started out in my career) are the worst. I would expect the below average people in Uber and Google to be among the worst of the worst too, though (they are the most insecure, I think). A lack of psychological safety is what drives a lot of this. As always there are exceptions, but as a rule, mediocrity breeds insecurity and insecurity breeds toxic behavior and no, none of this can be fixed in five minutes.