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by tryanother 12y ago
interesting. i'm guessing from your spelling of "programmes" that you are not in the US - where are these programs you speak of? i'd be very interested in reading about them.
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by tryanother 12y ago
Yes, thank you. The white knight attitude can be very frustrating and give the opposite of the desired effect. We are an asset, not something to be saved from other fields.
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by tryanother 12y ago
Agreed. I am only one data point, but i have no degree and I am a female dev. We're out there.
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by tryanother 12y ago
This is an important point. While the industry isn't always super welcoming to women, that isn't the whole problem. Lots of women just have other interests. We'll probably see gender parity in IT when we see gender parity in
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by tryanother 12y ago
yes, you're right about a) and b). the bottom line was that he didn't understand my code, and he thought i wasn't smart enough to write it.
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by tryanother 12y ago
So true. Best to stay clear of those kinds of people.
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by tryanother 12y ago
Thank you, I will take this advice to heart.
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by tryanother 12y ago
I think this is exactly what I will do. I've already completely excused myself from the politics and any interpersonal issues that come up. They are not relevant (and I work with one particularly abhorrent racist/bigot) so I just
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by tryanother 12y ago
This is good to know. I think a startup would be a great fit for me in many ways.
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by tryanother 12y ago
Thank you for the perspective. I take the requirements on job listings very literally and definitely underestimate what I have to offer. I will broaden my search. I am not in a tech hot spot, but also not in the middle of nowhere.
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by tryanother 12y ago
i am quickly adopting it as my general policy, too. i'm tired of the insecurity, neediness, and negativity that accompanies that mentality (along with the things you mentioned).
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by tryanother 12y ago
ugh, i would imagine not.
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by tryanother 12y ago
thank you for the link! if i had the experience you guys were looking for, i would absolutely go for it.
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by tryanother 12y ago
this is my first job in the industry, and i've only been there for less than 3 months. i'm afraid i won't be able to find another job with my experience.
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by tryanother 12y ago
ha - that's a good point. i hadn't thought of that.
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by tryanother 12y ago
thanks, i will definitely update my resume. i moved 800 miles for this job, so there's an extra layer of frustration there, too. i don't want it to have been for nothing.
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by tryanother 12y ago
i'm not sure if that would work with him, but i will give it some consideration.
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by tryanother 12y ago
Thank you for that feedback. These are the kinds of thing I can't learn on my own. There is absolutely no formal code review, much to my surprise; in fact, the closest thing to "process" here is to push to UAT as fast as huma
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by tryanother 12y ago
Thank you so much for this. I will start going to meet ups ASAP. I have worked so hard to get into this industry (I am almost completely self taught, no tech degree) and all I want is to work with passionate people who are inspired by my pa
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by tryanother 12y ago
That's what I am afraid of. I am very uncomfortable with the culture of conniving and suspicion that seems to be rampant here.
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by tryanother 12y ago
I only know his history in broad strokes. He has a "reputation," I just don't know the specifics. He hated the guy that I replaced - 3 months later and he is still publicly bad mouthing the guy. Very unprofessional, makes for
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by tryanother 12y ago
Yes, he is a dev. He thought I copied/pasted. He did not ask about licensing. He also told me that "inner JavaScript classes" are inappropriate for enterprise code. I asked him to explain what he was talking about - he meant
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What would you do? Boss thought I copied code from Web
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by tryanother 12y ago
this is exactly my experience with the bootcamp i did. aside from some codecademy courses, i had no development background, but i got in based on an aptitude test (IQ test type stuff) and my ability to complete an assignment that assessed v
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by tryanother 12y ago
i could talk your ear off about the corp culture that led to this situation, but i'll spare us both! we have no style guide. the code is not modular - everything is global. when i asked if i could at least encapsulate my own feature so
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by tryanother 12y ago
i'm fighting the good fight - the ones i write are CSS tables. the rest, no.
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by tryanother 12y ago
i could have written this. our "designer"/self-professed "front end guru" does everything wrong. everything. i've had to teach her what javascript callbacks, closures, constructor functions, and hoisting are. s