[akerl_]

Does she need to be an engineer or a "good engineer" to have a non-hostile workplace?

Considering that GitHub appears to have hired her partially for the purpose of bettering the culture, your point about "feminist agendas" also falls short.

I'll wait for real facts before coming to any conclusions, but immediately rejecting her statements like you're doing is not constructive for anyone.

[ehutch79]

To be referred to as a prominent engineer, yes.

[Kudos]

prominent - adjective 1. important; famous.

12.6K twitter followers disagree with you. For comparison, founder PJ Hyett has 14.9K.

[mason240]

And Linus Torvalds has 7.9k followers. Number of followers is a pretty terrible metric for prominence.

https://twitter.com/Linus__Torvalds

[ehutch79]

prominent employee, sure, engineer no.

you can be a really shitty engineer, or not one at all and have thousands of twitter followers.

[Kudos]

That's not what prominent means.

[vacri]

'prominent engineer' makes it sound like the prominence is due to being well-respected for skill in engineering, when it's apparently not. This is what ehutch79 is saying.

As an example, my primary role in my company is administration of systems. I very rarely take out the trash, and sometimes refill the toilet rolls if they're low. It would be misleading to refer to me as a janitor, prominent or otherwise.

Edit: I say 'apparently not' because she may be an awesome engineer, but her code is in private repos.

[korzun]

Did you really just use number of followers to gauge something?

[Kudos]

No, I used it as an indicator of fame.

[korzun]

Equally stupid.

[Kudos]

Wow, good argument there. Tell me why it's not an indicator of fame in this case?