Startups in SF be like "we care about diversity, but we just hire the best people"
Emily Kager
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Emily Kager
@EmilyKager
small town girl working in big tech. working on android platform UI @uber ππ±πΆππΌββοΈπ΄πΌββοΈπβ·οΈπ₯Ύπ₯
- imagine doctors being like "side project checkkkkk π₯Όπ·π©ββοΈ"
00:00 - My friend who is on dating apps in SF sent me this and I couldn't write better satire of SF tech weirdos if I tried
- Hiring rockstar developer! Must - work as hard as CEO for 0 equity - have side projects + green squares - use dark mode - 10+ years exp (but don't be old) - willing to work for less $ - put passion into every LOC and feel like it isnβt a βjobβ - product vision, but don't disagree
- Real friends 1. Text you back 2. Make time for you 3. Delete all the UTM parameters and referrals before sending you a garbage URL
- the hardest part of software engineering is finding someone who 1. knows why we did that 2. still works at the company 3. is not on PTO / sabbatical
- If anyone needed to hear it: I don't care about .dev domains or mechanical keyboards, I don't read Hacker News, I don't have a customized terminal, I don't spend all weekend coding, I sometimes use the Git GUI in my IDE, and I am valid in tech and so are you.
- tech bros in code reviews foam at the mouth about naming variables concisely and accurately but in any discussion about exclusionary language pull out the "they're just WORDS who CARES"
- Who called it "Best Budget Keyboards" and not "QWERTY under 30"
- Recently a woman I know was interviewing at a company in SF and she asked if they were doing anything proactive to improve diversity of the eng teams and they told her that was an aggressive question and it made them worried she was too "alpha" and "independent" for the job π
