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https://www.elephantinthevalley.com/ https://www.elephantinthevalley.com/ (2015)

• fatnoah 6y ago
  The struggle is real. I've had the fairly unique experience of being an executive (VP Eng) of a 50 person software startup where I was the only man on the executive team (CEO, COO, and CFO were women) for a period of several months, and where the male to female ratio on the exec team never skewed to a male majority. Despite the CEO and COO being strong and supremely capable (COO in particular was a tremendous mentor to me) industry veterans, questions were often directed to me that would have been more appropriate for them to answer, or the makeup of the team would be treated as a bit of a novelty or curiosity. On the positive side, having strong female representation in the management group did wonders for recruiting, and through no particular plan or design, I ended up with the most diverse Engineering org I've ever been a part of. Lack of bro culture and clear demonstration that there was no glass ceiling were huge weapons in the hiring arsenal.