Gayle

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Technology - Past, Present, Future(technologywoman.com)
5 points by Gayle 14y ago|0 comments
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What Sqoot Should Have Said (OR: Why women do not belong under “perks”)(technologywoman.com)
3 points by Gayle 15y ago|0 comments
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by Gayle 15y ago
Yes... it's idolizing women... as sexual objects offered as a perk to male coders so that they can serve the men. As a female coder, I'd rather not be offered as a perk to male coders. So, yeah, this is belittling.
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by Gayle 15y ago
They wrote two apologies. Their first one was pretty terrible and did not show that they had actually processed why what they did was so offensive. Their second apology was a bit better. But they claimed that their comment was "aimed to cal
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by Gayle 15y ago
If I were to theorize that this were a real interview question (which, again, it's not), then I think the first step is to ask a bunch of questions. Almost any solution to this problem will be making a bunch of assumptions, and you probably
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by Gayle 15y ago
Thanks :) And as an ex-hiring committee member myself, I agree with everything Collin there said too. And it pains me that people write blogs / books promoting this brain teaser stuff. Such a disservice to candidates...
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How to Ace that Google Dev Interview(technologywoman.com)
25 points by Gayle 15y ago|8 comments
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by Gayle 15y ago
If you're finishing your junior year, then yes, that's true. But if you've only done one year of college, then you might have trouble finding a paid internship. Your best bet might be an unpaid internship at a start-up.
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The 5 Skills that Guarantee Success in Life(technologywoman.com)
4 points by Gayle 15y ago|1 comments
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Hey, Hipster – "Ninja" Isn’t Cool: What Developers Really Want to Be Called Is…(technologywoman.com)
9 points by Gayle 15y ago|4 comments
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by Gayle 15y ago
The fifth edition of Cracking the Coding Interview came out a few weeks ago. The correct link is http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466208686 .
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by Gayle 15y ago
As a (female) software engineer at Google, I once staffed a booth at CES. CES doesn't, to my knowledge, have many booth babes, and there certainly weren't any at the Google booth. Despite this, I had a number of people DIRECTLY ask if I was
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by Gayle 15y ago
The correct term is "women," not "girls." Unless, of course, your company is regularly in the habit of hiring children for marketing position...
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Okay, folks, here’s how the Google interview process really works(technologywoman.com)
2 points by Gayle 15y ago|0 comments
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by Gayle 16y ago
@strlen Again, some of the questions are absolutely 100% FAKE. So if some questions (like the "why are manhole covers round") are definitely fake, and others seem very weird (like the dead beef one), isn't is more likely that that question
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by Gayle 16y ago
@andylei Yes, some do happen to be real. The point is that if several are definitely fake, why believe the rest? For example, take this one: "A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?" Come on, no one was asked t