| 1. How does the author know that his resume and accomplishments are superior? 2. No company interviews everyone that ever sends a resume in. If they did, they'd never get any work done. Remember, the goal of a company is not to interview people, but to produce a product or service. Continuing to interview once they've identified candidates to their liking is a waste of time. 3. The entitlement in this article is just...ridiculous. He assumes that because he has a good resume he's owed an interview. Again the world doesn't work like that. 4. He says her accomplishments aren't as impressive, but that's largely subjective. 5. He then goes on to say this:
>Don’t discriminate against qualified male candidates just to boost your female numbers. Do what I do instead. Teach your daughter to love computers. When she grows up and can program circles around me, I’m sure the market will reward her.< Why does she need to program circles around him to be rewarded by the market? Up-article he basically admits to not being the best programmer himself, but expects
future women to be super programmers just to get a spot at some startup. Why can't women have the freedom to be average like so many men are given? I mean, aren't we the industry that's constantly lamenting the number of bad programmers, most of whom are male? 6. I've interviewed and recommended for hiring tons of engineers for my company over that last 5 years. And one thing I can tell you is that the relative superiority of one's resume does not guarantee that a good employee. I've
interviewed people with Masters degrees, CS and Eng degrees, no degrees, you name it. And the one thing that I see is that the truth is in the interview; I'm not impressed by where someone went to school, how many degrees they have, or which prestigious company they worked for in the past. This guys needs to just suck it up and realize that as men we have huge advantages in the tech marketplace wrt to employment, and also accept the fact that he has no idea whether or not the woman that was hired was truly a better candidate than he. Sheesh...next he'll be complaining that he can't get hired at Hooters.... |
Rather than try to refute all those points which I've attempted to address elsewhere, I'll just ask you one thing.
You asserted that because my race and gender has enjoyed special privilege on the job market for so many years, that we should come to expect the kind of discrimination I experienced in order to fix the underrepresentation of women and minorities.
I understand that logic. I don't agree with it of course, but I'll concede it now for the sake of argument. Given that, can you tell me, when does the discrimination against my overprivileged group start to become wrong? What metrics can we use to declare victory in the struggle for equality of the races and sexes?