I fucking hate meetings. And honestly, only women consider attending meetings to be the same as working. For the rest of us, it's time we could be working that was wasted.
We hired a woman fresh out of going back to school to "learn to code" to be a software engineer. The first thing she did was announce her pregnancy, then became more interested in the leave policies than how to become good at her job.
This is why we only hire coders by internal referral. Nobody wants to be the one to let a slacker weak link onto the team so we only recommend people that we know for an absolute fact will be able to perform.
Pisses off HR no end that they can't gatekeep but fortunately the CEO has our back.
Interviewed an early-20s chick candidate a couple weeks ago for my team that works on a 3d rendering engine. She was currently working for a well-known company and had been there on a multi-year internship while working on her degree.
She was nice, but really vague on most of her answers. Then we get to the quick weed-out coding example where she's asked to write a function that does a 2d vector rotation around the origin, where we provided the rotation matrix and gave an example of how to multiply a vector by a matrix.
She got to choose her language (C# in this case). The tool we use provided her with a "Hello World!" main() function. She was utterly lost. Kept trying to use Unity libraries to do the rotation, and didn't seem to understand that we expected her to write the function herself. After she flailed for a few minutes and it was clear that she wasn't going to get anywhere, we helped her get a shitty program working that did the job.
After this, we asked what sort of position she was looking for and she was very clearly expecting to get an intermediate-level SDE gig. We said thanks.
It's unreal. This girl had no idea how out of her depth she was because I'm sure she'd been coddled her entire goddamn life. The best thing we could have probably said to her was, "you really need to up your game" but it probably wouldn't have done any good.
The fact that you have two downvotes is sad. Men and women have separate but equal roles, and like 99% of women are not fit for these jobs and the 1% that can keep up would still be happier at home.
Every so often we get a news story around here, about a woman getting knocked up and taking her maternity leave. Somehow they always manage to get a promotion to some manager/better paid position before going on leave. Then the company has to find a replacement and is "obligated" to give her position back when she returns...
The story is usually the background for a lawsuit, where the woman contests her firing. and the company saying that she knew she was pregnant and deliberately took the position when she knew she would not be able to do the work.
The only time I enjoy meetings is when I can point out how literally everyone else fucked up and ignored when I literally told them this was going to happen.
Everything else is a waste of time, and can be done via email in my experience. But I know a lot of people (in general, not just at my job) who refuse to read emails and do their job unless there's a meeting where they get held to the fire directly.
Meetings should be short and and precise. A general meeting where a team of 10 or less people updating what they are working on or have accomplished should not take more than 13 minutes tops. ideally 10 or less but I give 3 for the general good morning how is everyone doing kind of small talk
That meeting could be an email and is still not important unless I actually need to know about the rest of the team's progress on a specific process. If that's the case then we're probably collaborating on something and I'm already in contact with them independent of some dumb meeting, so the meeting is still just going to get in the way of me being productive most of the time.
Should be an email. The problem is you end up with people who also never send the update email. So if you have a team of people who do that great. I’ve worked on teams where everyone is great at their job, but they are all focused on their tasks and never update their tasks as completed leaving the manager unsure where our progress is on milestones causing problems for them when it comes to task planning and scheduling. So if I have to have a meeting, 1 10 minute meeting a week isn’t a bad trade off.
I fucking hate meetings. And honestly, only women consider attending meetings to be the same as working. For the rest of us, it's time we could be working that was wasted.
The concept of productivity is alien to most women.
We hired a woman fresh out of going back to school to "learn to code" to be a software engineer. The first thing she did was announce her pregnancy, then became more interested in the leave policies than how to become good at her job.
This is why we only hire coders by internal referral. Nobody wants to be the one to let a slacker weak link onto the team so we only recommend people that we know for an absolute fact will be able to perform.
Pisses off HR no end that they can't gatekeep but fortunately the CEO has our back.
Interviewed an early-20s chick candidate a couple weeks ago for my team that works on a 3d rendering engine. She was currently working for a well-known company and had been there on a multi-year internship while working on her degree.
She was nice, but really vague on most of her answers. Then we get to the quick weed-out coding example where she's asked to write a function that does a 2d vector rotation around the origin, where we provided the rotation matrix and gave an example of how to multiply a vector by a matrix.
She got to choose her language (C# in this case). The tool we use provided her with a "Hello World!" main() function. She was utterly lost. Kept trying to use Unity libraries to do the rotation, and didn't seem to understand that we expected her to write the function herself. After she flailed for a few minutes and it was clear that she wasn't going to get anywhere, we helped her get a shitty program working that did the job.
After this, we asked what sort of position she was looking for and she was very clearly expecting to get an intermediate-level SDE gig. We said thanks.
It's unreal. This girl had no idea how out of her depth she was because I'm sure she'd been coddled her entire goddamn life. The best thing we could have probably said to her was, "you really need to up your game" but it probably wouldn't have done any good.
This is why women shouldn't have careers.
Go home and raise your kids.
The fact that you have two downvotes is sad. Men and women have separate but equal roles, and like 99% of women are not fit for these jobs and the 1% that can keep up would still be happier at home.
Sounds like someone who would not "be a good fit" within the 90 day trial period.
She probably announced her pregnancy after that one was over.
Every so often we get a news story around here, about a woman getting knocked up and taking her maternity leave. Somehow they always manage to get a promotion to some manager/better paid position before going on leave. Then the company has to find a replacement and is "obligated" to give her position back when she returns...
The story is usually the background for a lawsuit, where the woman contests her firing. and the company saying that she knew she was pregnant and deliberately took the position when she knew she would not be able to do the work.
Meetings - Sitting around trading versions of events mostly of no consequence to your personal endeavors.
Why would women like this? shocked pikachu
The only time I enjoy meetings is when I can point out how literally everyone else fucked up and ignored when I literally told them this was going to happen.
Everything else is a waste of time, and can be done via email in my experience. But I know a lot of people (in general, not just at my job) who refuse to read emails and do their job unless there's a meeting where they get held to the fire directly.
Meetings should be short and and precise. A general meeting where a team of 10 or less people updating what they are working on or have accomplished should not take more than 13 minutes tops. ideally 10 or less but I give 3 for the general good morning how is everyone doing kind of small talk
That meeting could be an email and is still not important unless I actually need to know about the rest of the team's progress on a specific process. If that's the case then we're probably collaborating on something and I'm already in contact with them independent of some dumb meeting, so the meeting is still just going to get in the way of me being productive most of the time.
Should be an email. The problem is you end up with people who also never send the update email. So if you have a team of people who do that great. I’ve worked on teams where everyone is great at their job, but they are all focused on their tasks and never update their tasks as completed leaving the manager unsure where our progress is on milestones causing problems for them when it comes to task planning and scheduling. So if I have to have a meeting, 1 10 minute meeting a week isn’t a bad trade off.