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> He said there's some support in academic literature to indicate the women have more performance anxiety than men, but he stressed that's a gross oversimplific

> He said there's some support in academic literature to indicate the women have more performance anxiety than men, but he stressed that's a gross oversimplification because men experience performance anxiety too. I (as a man) can absolutely work under stressful conditions such as dealing with a major outage, even if there is a bunch of people looking over my shoulder. However having a bunch of people looking over my shoulder waiting for me to write on a whiteboard what they have in mind and then judge me, that's going to be a problem for me.

treeman79 6y ago
Drove 4 hours to an interview. (Drive should have taken 2). Showed up exactly On time but very frazzled. Then had to sit in front of 20+ engineering’s and solve various puzzles. First 3 minutes were me staring at screen trying to remember what programming was. After settling down I proceeded to solve problem after problem effortlessly. Later in career I got very sick. I would be doing presentations while having minor strokes (TIAs) I shouldn’t have been working, But I had no options if I lost my job. Doctors didn’t yet know what cause was. So literally I had to perform or die. Yea that is stress.