I've noticed IT companies encouraging going to the office more and more. I doubt is anything to do with productivity and everything to do with higher ups having money in investment funds.
There is a genuine argument to working in the office if you are genuinely working to build a good culture within your company. No idea if that applies to her place though.
It culture is not good if we're being honest. The days of anti-social nerds that found a community to laugh and drink a beer after work is over. It was over once affirmative action started.
The level of discrimination in IT is insane. I used to handle tech interviews on my previous job, the manager said that any woman that comes in will get an offer. There were some very incompetent women that got an offer, some of them accepted, they did poorly and then they left the company a year later, for more money at a different company.
There was also this white dude, 20 years old, very dedicated, I talked to him about what he was doing, he has a very cool setup at home, very self taught, came from a poor background, the guy had a clear passion and did better on tests then a lot of guys with more experience then him. Management did not like him. Not long after that I just quit, it hurts the soul.
Now imagine having to go the office and share in the globohomo culture there.
I haven't really encountered that, mostly because where I'm at all IT jobs are inherently sparse (this area is not a high-demand tech sector). I think that might be the case in most US major cities where tech is a big deal.
The days of anti-social nerds that found a community to laugh and drink a beer after work is over.
Meh, you can still find that culture, it's just a lot harder to come across now. Basically if your office is a bunch of White guys who are into tech you can have that, but policy is that everyone has to force in some women and diversity hires to fuck everything up. I have never had a better work environment than when it was exclusively White male nerds. The fact that we aren't allowed to have that anymore is nothing short of criminal and I mean that sincerely and without an iota of hyperbole.
I've noticed IT companies encouraging going to the office more and more. I doubt is anything to do with productivity and everything to do with higher ups having money in investment funds.
There is a genuine argument to working in the office if you are genuinely working to build a good culture within your company. No idea if that applies to her place though.
It culture is not good if we're being honest. The days of anti-social nerds that found a community to laugh and drink a beer after work is over. It was over once affirmative action started.
The level of discrimination in IT is insane. I used to handle tech interviews on my previous job, the manager said that any woman that comes in will get an offer. There were some very incompetent women that got an offer, some of them accepted, they did poorly and then they left the company a year later, for more money at a different company.
There was also this white dude, 20 years old, very dedicated, I talked to him about what he was doing, he has a very cool setup at home, very self taught, came from a poor background, the guy had a clear passion and did better on tests then a lot of guys with more experience then him. Management did not like him. Not long after that I just quit, it hurts the soul.
Now imagine having to go the office and share in the globohomo culture there.
I haven't really encountered that, mostly because where I'm at all IT jobs are inherently sparse (this area is not a high-demand tech sector). I think that might be the case in most US major cities where tech is a big deal.
Meh, you can still find that culture, it's just a lot harder to come across now. Basically if your office is a bunch of White guys who are into tech you can have that, but policy is that everyone has to force in some women and diversity hires to fuck everything up. I have never had a better work environment than when it was exclusively White male nerds. The fact that we aren't allowed to have that anymore is nothing short of criminal and I mean that sincerely and without an iota of hyperbole.
We were lots of guys and a few nerdy girls. I'm still close to most of them. But that was some time ago. I don't see that dynamic anymore.