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True enough, but it may be one reason there are comparatively few women in tech. People choose a career for themselves when they're years of work away from bein
by sillysaurus3 12y ago
True enough, but it may be one reason there are comparatively few women in tech. People choose a career for themselves when they're years of work away from being in any workplace. Hacker News is the closest thing that people will get to knowing what it's like to work in tech.
Which is unfortunate, since HN is nothing like working in tech. Remember the brogrammer phenomenon? At the time, it almost seemed like that was the direction the industry might be headed. Luckily not.
- jnbiche 12y ago>Which is unfortunate, since HN is nothing like working in tech. Working with SV firms full of men in the 20s is exactly like this. My colleagues are pretty much brogrammers, or overseas contractors (who are similarly young, callous, arrogant, and emotionally...young). And looking at other sectors of tech, things look pretty similar. What area of tech do you work in that is nothing like HN in terms of this attitude? (disclaimer: I actually really appreciate HN as a source of information, and there's an impressive amount of expertise here, but as a social network, it's depressing).