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If you really want to know, there are some good things happening on Twitter in discussing such things, if you can find it.
A job offer. Seriously. More verbosely, if no one's willing to hire BIPOC or women in the first place, then how can one ever expect to find experienced BIPOC/women devs in the candidate pool? And while that experience Catch-22 is generalizable to White/male/Asian devs, the lack of diversity in tech spaces speaks for itself in terms of implicit hiring bias. I, myself, have had spotty employment, absurdly hostile bosse…
This is an overwhelmingly male space and the culture here skews heavily "White upper class American male" in spite of being highly multicultural and international in membership. You aren't likely to get much in the way of good answers here because it doesn't feel like a very welcoming space for the types of people you are hoping to get answers from. If you really want to know, there are some good things happening on…
I feel like this kind of approach to engineering opportunities is why people might be averse to hiring you (if that's even the case)... Statements like this are akin' to claims that "networking is hard for me because " when in reality it's pretty damn hard for everyone. If you make it clear this is your M.O. during an interview expect to be alienated and ignored. We're here to write software and build cool stuff, not…
A job offer. Seriously. More verbosely, if no one's willing to hire BIPOC or women in the first place, then how can one ever expect to find experienced BIPOC/women devs in the candidate pool? And while that experience Catch-22 is generalizable to White/male/Asian devs, the lack of diversity in tech spaces speaks for itself in terms of implicit hiring bias. I, myself, have had spotty employment, absurdly hostile bosse…
This is an overwhelmingly male space and the culture here skews heavily "White upper class American male" in spite of being highly multicultural and international in membership. You aren't likely to get much in the way of good answers here because it doesn't feel like a very welcoming space for the types of people you are hoping to get answers from. If you really want to know, there are some good things happening on…
This is an overwhelmingly male space and the culture here skews heavily "White upper class American male" in spite of being highly multicultural and international in membership. You aren't likely to get much in the way of good answers here because it doesn't feel like a very welcoming space for the types of people you are hoping to get answers from. If you really want to know, there are some good things happening on…
I appreciate the thoughtful and honest response. I've seen some great discussion on Twitter. Hopefully HN picks up on some of these discussions and can become a more welcoming space for dialogue from those with different backgrounds and perspectives
I wasn't actually trying to be negative. Just informative.