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That has not been my experience consulting at many big videogame companies. Lately my bread and butter is fixing legacy game engines. I have yet to meet a cisw

• InsideOutSanta 2y ago
  When I studied comp sci around 2000, women were actively discouraged from continuing their classes by professors. During an oral exam, a prof told a female friend of mine that women had no place in comp sci. As a result, not many women graduated, so two decades ago, there were just fewer women in the field in general. I'm not sure what exactly qualifies as a "legacy game engine", but given the small number of women who worked in comp sci when games were made ten or twenty years ago, and particularly in male-dominated videogame studios, I would naturally not expect to see a lot of cis women with experience working on these engines (or on related tech stacks) today. This seems like a bit of a special case, rather than a general representation of women in software engineering.
  • norwalkbear 2y ago
    That was 20 years ago, things changed. Most modern game engines are less than 10 yrs old. Your assumptions are wrong and out of date.