I saw the same in France: the ones who choose Maths at Uni want to be teachers, vaguely. The guys we all wanted to program computers, fpga chips, make 3D game.

I saw the same in France: the ones who choose Maths at Uni want to be teachers, vaguely. The guys we all wanted to program computers, fpga chips, make 3D game. You would see us compete like madmen to do the most open assignments to have the most insane stuff (I won once after doing a 3D engine able to parse, draw, texture and navigate inside arbitrary counter strike map, with skybox and ok perf but no physics). The girls they d send you the last day of vacation a plea to send them the response to some basic assignment. It's hard now to take seriously my company trying to make us diversify the workforce. We either get no one or once we got a girl who look half interested she leaves after a year because she doesnt find it so fun, the daily code grind. We have to do fake interviews with our female friends to pass the rule "each male hire must be preceded by an attempted female hire". And God I wish they d persist,the girls, because I d love to see something different at work. And I sure hope my daughter will see the joy of talking to and making algorithmic machines, but I guess it's on me