Sexism at Uber from Female Management • Hacker News Board

Re: Sexism at Uber from Female Management

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy » Mon, Mar 06, 2017, 8:53 PM UTC

voidlogic wrote: post #219

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #80

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There's an alternative: put them in management and enforce mandatory management training. A former employer of mine had a rule that anyone at a "management level" (including engineers of a certain rank, even if they weren't actually managing anyone) had to complete a set of training courses within a certain period of being promoted. As an engineer entering management, I found the courses to be surprisingly useful in…

>There's an alternative: put them in management and enforce mandatory management training. IMHO, I think your faulty assumption here is every good engineer can be trained into a good manager, and I think thats just not realistic...

I'm not assuming anything: I'm saying that there's an answer to the question of how you put an untrained person into an unfamiliar environment: train them.

Whether or not a good/bad X can be retrained into a bad/good Y is a wholly different question.

Re: Sexism at Uber from Female Management

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Post by brilliantcode » Mon, Mar 06, 2017, 10:53 PM UTC

kkhire wrote: post #221

zaidf wrote: post #65

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...if the CEO and I didn't see eye to eye on something, that was never going to change while this person was CEO. This advice may be reliably true but I would also argue there are major exceptions. For example, take founder & ceo of any billion dollar company and you will find that they evolved drastically (in good and bad ways) over the years. Zuckerberg has radically transformed himself from an immature frat boy to…

lol zuck wasn't an "immature frat boy" dude spent his time studying latin, programmming and taking psych courses. evan spiegel of snapchat is more your typical transformation from immature college kid to billion dollar company CEO

Once I found out Evan Spiegel is banging Miranda Kerr, I became determined to ruin Snapchat by purchasing far out of the money put options with my measly tax free savings account barely amounting to 1 ten-thousandth of his post-IPO net worth.

Re: Sexism at Uber from Female Management

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Post by adrienne » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 9:09 PM UTC

imaginenore wrote: post #43

None of what she described is sexism. Even the tank top thing, maybe barely. Her manager made a good point - maybe her career isn't progressing as fast, because she dresses very casually, and people don't take her as seriously. I don't think I've ever seen a girl in tech wear a tank top (not that I would mind, just pointing it out).

You probably have never seen a girl working in tech, period, given employment law. The women working in tech are generally over 18.

Re: Sexism at Uber from Female Management

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Post by naravara » Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 6:43 PM UTC

zaidf wrote: post #229

naravara wrote: post #176

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>charitable, intelligent billionaire CEO. The creepy and megalomaniacal strains of his personality, though, still seem to be there in full force and are reflected in his company and product.

creepy and megalomaniacal strains of his personality If you choose to, you could attach those super subjective labels to almost any founder of a billion dollar consumer tech company.

You can attach a subjective label to anyone anywhere. But since words mean things, people can generally suss out how close they are to being an accurate description or not.