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Does she need to be an engineer or a "good engineer" to have a non-hostile workplace? Considering that GitHub appears to have hired her partially for the purpo
by akerl_ 13y ago
Does she need to be an engineer or a "good engineer" to have a non-hostile workplace?
Considering that GitHub appears to have hired her partially for the purpose of bettering the culture, your point about "feminist agendas" also falls short.
I'll wait for real facts before coming to any conclusions, but immediately rejecting her statements like you're doing is not constructive for anyone.
- ehutch79 13y agoTo be referred to as a prominent engineer, yes.
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- Kudos 13y agoprominent - adjective 1. important; famous. 12.6K twitter followers disagree with you. For comparison, founder PJ Hyett has 14.9K.
- ehutch79 13y agoprominent employee, sure, engineer no. you can be a really shitty engineer, or not one at all and have thousands of twitter followers.
- Kudos 13y agoThat's not what prominent means.
- vacri 13y ago'prominent engineer' makes it sound like the prominence is due to being well-respected for skill in engineering, when it's apparently not. This is what ehutch79 is saying. As an example, my primary role in my company is administration of systems. I very rarely take out the trash, and sometimes refill the toilet rolls if they're low. It would be misleading to refer to me as a janitor, prominent or otherwise. Edit: I say 'apparently not' because she may be an awesome engineer, but her code is in private repos.
- mason240 13y agoAnd Linus Torvalds has 7.9k followers. Number of followers is a pretty terrible metric for prominence. https://twitter.com/Linus__Torvalds https://twitter.com/Linus__Torvalds
- korzun 13y agoDid you really just use number of followers to gauge something?