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by throwaway847345
3337 days ago
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> You can land a job almost everywhere with almost no knowledge if you are a jr female developer, which is not true for men. Not only do I find that unlikely, I would say that it's blatantly false since you most certainly (AFAIK) couldn't land a job as an engineer in one of the large tech companies without a degree or significant experience. Far more likely is that women who become developers, because of the state of the industry, on average are more employable since they are likely to have more formal education and skills that the industry lacks. But wouldn't necessarily recognized as such by other developers because they aren't seen as "cool hackers". |
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> couldn't land a job as an engineer in one of the large tech companies without a degree or significant experience.
I have seen and met people that prove the opposite. But yeah every generalization has intrinsic errors.
The number of people trying to change career through bootcamp is insanely huge, I think they aren't good enough to qualify people (compared to university or relevant experience) and I think it shows. If you see the stats, around 40% of people that do bootcamps are female (despite the much lower number in the industry), and I am sure part of them lands jobs (I have interviewed a lot, and have seen some of them land job in the big companies) and have a hard time getting at the same level of degree/experienced people.
I think for a big company (with the huge amount of female they need to fill the gap) it's safer to hire, and invest in formation than find a good experienced female engineer (which honestly are a bit rare...since the industry forgot about them for about 20 years).