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by JPKab
1875 days ago
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I really appreciate your extremely informative response. I think you hit a very good point with the pioneer attacks and it's a higher cost as the team gets larger. Funny enough I experienced the pioneer tax myself one time but for a different reason than ethnicity or sexuality:
Socioeconomic status. People can't tell by looking at me but within about two sentences they can very accurately HEAR via my speech patterns that I grew up in a lower socioeconomic class than 99% of US born programmers in the industry. I have a very rural dialect but I do work hard to have excellent grammar when I speak. Over the years I've worked hard to suppress the accent while at work and I'm sad to say that it's been very effective in reducing people's biases toward me. Of course that's just anecdotal it's not like somebody was scientifically measuring anything. And I'm fully aware it's a huge luxury to be able to hide what makes you different from people, as opposed to race/gender/etc. |
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