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by minnca 7y ago
>Your former employer is giving out your contact information so you can help them recruit(?) I think a lot of women would view a request like this as helping other women, rather than helping the company. Plus, as Nabors points out, the c
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by minnca 7y ago
> "that is a {guy|lady} that I work with." "Person" also works in this case. +1 for they. "Lady" seems patronizing to me - would you call someone a "gentleman"? To me, "lady" describes a
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by minnca 7y ago
I should have clarified – it's a pet peeve for me when men do this exclusively for women/not for other men. It's definitely something I think it can be pretty observable during an onsite – for example, if you're waiting
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by minnca 7y ago
Interview vibes matter. As a woman, if the men (it's usually men) that interview me talk down to me or use patronizing language (however subtle), that's a red flag, though not necessarily a deal-breaker. Also, it's a personal
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by minnca 8y ago
Ummm what about just going outside of the house to work? Like one of those shared workspaces? Not being able to work when your wife is around doesn't really seem to me like ground for divorce, it just seems like you need different kind
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by minnca 8y ago
In my 1:1's, I talk about what I'm working on, any challenges I'm facing, and what I want to work on in the future (some combination of those three). You might be able to talk about the issues you mentioned if you can frame t
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by minnca 8y ago
I write developer docs (internal).
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by minnca 8y ago
I also probably don't fit your target audience, but I'm an entry level FAANG technical writer. I make ~105k (salary + bonus + stock). My more experienced coworkers make much more than that – in my experience, tech writers definite