Having been at this for a few years I’ve seen a couple of unfortunate trends. When i started out it was very common to find women and older people in the workf

Having been at this for a few years I’ve seen a couple of unfortunate trends. When i started out it was very common to find women and older people in the workforce doing programming and related roles quite happily. We then seem to have gone through a period of the uber-geek / nerd and ended up with a very “bro” culture that totally alienated women / people with a life outside work. Horrible. Fortunately in the post Covid world and with a dearth of talent to hire this seems to be retreating somewhat.