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The problem is that you are likening her to a janitor to create the impression that she has zero programming experience. First of all, if you'd read the article

The problem is that you are likening her to a janitor to create the impression that she has zero programming experience. First of all, if you'd read the article you'll find she probably has as much experience as a lot of bootcamp grads. You're also kind of insulting janitors by assuming none of them could possibly have any coding skills. So many people nowadays learn coding using "non-traditional" means, and some of those people are REALLY good. Her skills were evaluated over a period of time and she was found to be worthy of a place. Why is that so difficult to believe? If this story were about a man, how would your reaction be different?

Geminidog 6y ago
>The problem is that you are likening her to a janitor to create the impression that she has zero programming experience. You're completely right. Change "janitor" to "janitor who went to bootcamp" and my statement still stands. This girl didn't even go to bootcamp. Stop implying I have insulted people. I haven't said anything hateful at all. >If this story were about a man, how would your reaction be different? My reaction would be completely different. You're right. You could actually go find a similar story for a man, post it here and that can help change my view on this subject. The more similar stories you find for men who have done this the more evidence you will have to support your case. As it stands I find that it is much less likely for a man to be offered this act of charity. My views are based off of anecdotal evidence and I will flip flop my views and do a full 360 based off of all available data. As a side note, men tend to find rank more important learning a new skill or career. Due to this less men will even try to take up this deal when offered the opportunity. I think it has happened but it's just much less likely. To build a realistic data set you need to find the percentages success vs. failures of both men and women who have tried a horizontal career switch within the same company. Unfortunately this data is likely very hard to build so both of our arguments are quite speculative. Still I have anecdotal data, you haven't offered any.

Geminidog 6y ago

>The problem is that you are likening her to a janitor to create the impression that she has zero programming experience. You're completely right. Change "janitor" to "janitor who went to bootcamp" and my statement still stands. This girl didn't even go to bootcamp. Stop implying I have insulted people. I haven't said anything hateful at all. >If this story were about a man, how would your reaction be different? My reaction would be completely different. You're right. You could actually go find a similar story for a man, post it here and that can help change my view on this subject. The more similar stories you find for men who have done this the more evidence you will have to support your case. As it stands I find that it is much less likely for a man to be offered this act of charity. My views are based off of anecdotal evidence and I will flip flop my views and do a full 360 based off of all available data. As a side note, men tend to find rank more important learning a new skill or career. Due to this less men will even try to take up this deal when offered the opportunity. I think it has happened but it's just much less likely. To build a realistic data set you need to find the percentages success vs. failures of both men and women who have tried a horizontal career switch within the same company. Unfortunately this data is likely very hard to build so both of our arguments are quite speculative. Still I have anecdotal data, you haven't offered any.