On: How to Be a ‘Woman Programmer’

[venomsnake]

So I have this female friend that interviewed a few days ago in a small embedded device workshop - so they ask her to implement bubble sort in C. She manages this and then they as k her can you work with oscilloscope and she answers "No but I can learn fast" then they dismiss her and unofficially tell her that they won't hire her because girls don't like working close to hardware.

So bias against women is alive and well. She was discarded for a non issue.

[wavefunction → venomsnake]

Sounds like she really dodged a bullet!

[djcapelis → wavefunction]

That would probably be more comforting if bullets weren't as prevalent in the field.

[venomsnake → wavefunction]

Every place that thinks that bubble is sort is algorithm is not a good workplace anyway ...