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You have talked about who is labeled a brogrammer, but can you clarify who is doing the calling? You seem to be saying it is the geeky types themselves. And whe
by Torgo 13y ago
You have talked about who is labeled a brogrammer, but can you clarify who is doing the calling? You seem to be saying it is the geeky types themselves. And where are you geographically, roughly?
I am not in Silicon Valley. I spent the first 11 years of my career in the Midwest in the corporate world where you had to dress professionally, didn't get to put up posters in your cube or shoot each other with nerf guns, and sexual harassment would get you instafired. Being a "brogrammer" would not fly there.
For the last couple years I am surrounded by "geek" types and can wear a t-shirt and jeans to work, but I still haven't seen any disdain for "non-geek" types. The only place I hear the term "brogrammer" is here, Twitter and a subset of the media, and it seems primarily by feminists/progressives. So my experience is quite different from yours.
I am emphatically not saying it doesn't exist, I just wonder if it's a "thing" once you get beyond Silicon Valley/Mountain View/San Francisco.
- Crito 13y agoI've noticed it primarily in SF and Seattle. I've seen it to a limited extent in Philadelphia, but it's been my observation that most tech jobs on the East Coast have sufficiently strict dress codes to make lifestyles/hobbies relatively non-apparent at first glance. (the limited extent that I witnessed it in Philadelphia was at a startup that I interviewed with. One of my "geek" friends warned me that the startup was filled with "brogrammers"). Although the term "brogrammer" was not invented yet, I also witnessed it in university on the East Coast, where CS kids in fraternities were frequently given a hard time by other CS students. It definitely is "geeks" doing most of the name calling, though the twitter/SJW sphere has certainly adopted and perpetuated it as well.