YC is NOT representative of CS, or most faang employees even. It’s extremely stressful, high stakes and high risk. I wouldn’t do it, and most people I know in t

YC is NOT representative of CS, or most faang employees even. It’s extremely stressful, high stakes and high risk. I wouldn’t do it, and most people I know in tech wouldn’t either. Out of extremely high stakes games, my understanding is this has always been male dominated. So you’d have to first take the prerequisite ratio (for instance if CS degree, it’d be ~19% women, in the US) and then multiply by some risk taking factor, perhaps by comparing to other ventures in domains with 50-50 to get some form of baseline. I mean hell, we don’t even know the ratio of applicants.