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.
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.