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I do acknowledge that my experience was a sample space of one!
by mobilene 4y ago
I do acknowledge that my experience was a sample space of one!
- mixmastamyk 4y agoI think this statement goes too far in that case, I'd walk it back: > The software industry was a far less diverse place then. It probably makes sense when talking specifically about the midwest, due to demographics. But out here in SoCal in the 90s, I had a south asian boss and foreign national engineers from a number of countries working side by side. China, Italy, Norway. It was a big facility and we had US minority employees as well, although not a huge number. Software dept was 1/4 women approximately. Re: being gay it was the "don't ask, don't tell" days. No one I knew cared in the least. An interesting angle is I wasn't perceptive about it as a young person. Looking back in the hindsight of maturity, obviously gay people were everywhere. Just like in Hollywood, everyone just winked and nudged. Right, Uncle Arthur is ~fifty, unmarried, and rather flamboyant, nothing to see here. ;-)