February 5, 2015 at 7:02 am
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
So, Salary.com has an article about job interviews and trick questions[/url]. I think it's fairly interesting. What do you think?Do you agree or disagree that trick questions are fair game?
I hate them. They range from "Oh, we couldn't figure this out and neither could the Microsoft consultants, so we thought we'd try you" questions to one where the C# code was detecting if a string was a palindrome. I started at that one and kept thinking "That can't be right, who would do that?"
Find out if the person knows what they're doing. People who try to be extra clever in their code have a tendency to out-clever themselves and then no-one can fix it.
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
February 5, 2015 at 7:08 am
Grant Fritchey (2/5/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
So, Salary.com has an article about job interviews and trick questions[/url]. I think it's fairly interesting. What do you think?Do you agree or disagree that trick questions are fair game?
Crap.
I want someone that is capable and knowledgeable. Then, I want a team fit. And, to a degree, the team fit is actually more important. If someone is at least smart and ready to learn we can teach them the job. But if they don't fit in with the team, how does performing well on knowing how to get cannibals and hunters across the river help me? I'd say it doesn't.
"Team fit" is really tricky. At bad places, racism and sexism and anti-lgbt attitudes are on the surface & keep people out. Even at good places there are a lot of more subtle aspects of those things going on that can keep good candidates out. I've been an interviewer at places where I see the women get harder questions or are judged more harshly and people don't even realize they're doing it. Women and minorities have a tendency to be judged on their "attitude" more and many times it is subtle prejudice and many times they are uncomfortable in the interview because they know they have strikes against them before they sit down just because of who they are.
I'm constantly examining how I interview people and what my reactions are during the interview and comparing them to how I interview others. It is the only way I know to try and combat the societal expectations we're all saddled with.
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
February 5, 2015 at 7:09 am
Sioban Krzywicki (2/4/2015)
Grant Fritchey (2/4/2015)
Sioban Krzywicki (2/4/2015)
Some of it is probably the sport you're focusing on. Two of the sports were football and field events (shot put, discus, javelin). It was less than twice mine. And 400 lbs was a deadlift weight. Get it off the ground, stand up straight, put it back down.
Yeah, deadlift. It's not like I have a 400lb snatch or a clean & jerk. I can clean 210. But I only snatch 135. That lift involves so much skill and frankly, I suck.
The balance and steadying strength required for that last one... ugh.
I managed a 300 lb bench press once.
And, of course, these are all "testing max" weights. I didn't do reps with any of them.
Now that's scary. You're one tough broad.
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February 5, 2015 at 7:28 am
Sioban Krzywicki (2/5/2015)
Grant Fritchey (2/5/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
So, Salary.com has an article about job interviews and trick questions[/url]. I think it's fairly interesting. What do you think?Do you agree or disagree that trick questions are fair game?
Crap.
I want someone that is capable and knowledgeable. Then, I want a team fit. And, to a degree, the team fit is actually more important. If someone is at least smart and ready to learn we can teach them the job. But if they don't fit in with the team, how does performing well on knowing how to get cannibals and hunters across the river help me? I'd say it doesn't.
"Team fit" is really tricky. At bad places, racism and sexism and anti-lgbt attitudes are on the surface & keep people out. Even at good places there are a lot of more subtle aspects of those things going on that can keep good candidates out. I've been an interviewer at places where I see the women get harder questions or are judged more harshly and people don't even realize they're doing it. Women and minorities have a tendency to be judged on their "attitude" more and many times it is subtle prejudice and many times they are uncomfortable in the interview because they know they have strikes against them before they sit down just because of who they are.
I'm constantly examining how I interview people and what my reactions are during the interview and comparing them to how I interview others. It is the only way I know to try and combat the societal expectations we're all saddled with.
This is a serious issue, especially in the technology world. Women are forced to play roles both in the interview and then at the job after being hiring. It's more than "working twice as hard to get to the same place as a man." When we try to knowledge-share, we get second guessed. When we crow our achievements, we're told we're being arrogant or noisy. When we go to lead, we're often told we're being bossy.
And when we sit in an interview, we have to police ourselves more closely than a man might have to. You should track your own experience with this, Shiv. Other transitioned women I know have mentioned they were themselves never aware of the cultural bias until others applied to them (or stopped applying in the case of women transitioning to men).
Over the past 15+ years, I constantly notice how I am singled out for being intimidating. I'm short and don't look terribly athletic, yet apparently I scare men bigger and stronger than I am because I'm assertive. It's not that I'm trying to scare people or be particularly aggressive. I just call a spade a spade and stand up for my work and my team. If I find out I'm wrong, I apologize. But apparently a man can do exactly what I do, and can even be verbally abusive in the process (which I'm not), and everyone congratulates him for standing up for "what's right."
Fortunately I now work for an employer who is truly invested in workplace diversity and changing cultural norms so that everyone can stand up to speak for themselves. There are still issues. It takes time for these things to shake out of the zeitgheist. But we have resources for conflict and problem resolution, including gender-bias issues. And that's promising.
February 5, 2015 at 7:33 am
Sioban Krzywicki (2/5/2015)
Grant Fritchey (2/5/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
So, Salary.com has an article about job interviews and trick questions[/url]. I think it's fairly interesting. What do you think?Do you agree or disagree that trick questions are fair game?
Crap.
I want someone that is capable and knowledgeable. Then, I want a team fit. And, to a degree, the team fit is actually more important. If someone is at least smart and ready to learn we can teach them the job. But if they don't fit in with the team, how does performing well on knowing how to get cannibals and hunters across the river help me? I'd say it doesn't.
"Team fit" is really tricky. At bad places, racism and sexism and anti-lgbt attitudes are on the surface & keep people out. Even at good places there are a lot of more subtle aspects of those things going on that can keep good candidates out. I've been an interviewer at places where I see the women get harder questions or are judged more harshly and people don't even realize they're doing it. Women and minorities have a tendency to be judged on their "attitude" more and many times it is subtle prejudice and many times they are uncomfortable in the interview because they know they have strikes against them before they sit down just because of who they are.
I'm constantly examining how I interview people and what my reactions are during the interview and comparing them to how I interview others. It is the only way I know to try and combat the societal expectations we're all saddled with.
No arguments. I had to go through DAYS of training to be allowed to do interviews at my last employer. It was tough.
Reminds me of an interview horror story I had. I interviewed this lady who kept saying over and over and over "At my church..." followed by a story related to the question I asked, assuming it wasn't technical questions. She just kept bringing it up. Over and over. I finally said, "Oh, where do you go to church" seriously not thinking anything of it. She turned into Linda Blair. I swear her head rotated 360, her voice dropped 16 octaves and her eyes turned red, "YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ASK THAT KIND OF QUESTION!" I didn't know what to do beyond apologizing. I was freaked. It seemed like such an innocuous question, especially after she brought it up so very often (I mean it, she talked about her church in relation to almost any question asked). That was pre-training and I now know that the question is considered "inappropriate." But it's one of those things about interviewing people that just makes the whole thing incredibly difficult. You can be 100% without malice, 100% without prejudice, just responding as one human being to another in the most human possible way... and be 100% in the wrong. Yee ha!
Oh, and she didn't get the job. However, we stayed in touch and I gave her a recommendation to another position that she was more qualified for.
And we all have prejudices that come to play. For example, I know one of mine. I worked for three dot coms back in the day. Each was run by Harvard Business School grads. Each of these grads were complete jerks, all of whom just crashed the company into the ground, two of whom stole from the company, and one of whom was actually later prosecuted for a whole slew of crimes. When interviewing, I'll ask "How many Harvard Business School grads are in the management team" because I don't trust them. And I recognize that it's prejudice, but I can't help it.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
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February 5, 2015 at 7:45 am
ChrisM@Work (2/5/2015)
Sioban Krzywicki (2/4/2015)
Grant Fritchey (2/4/2015)
Sioban Krzywicki (2/4/2015)
Some of it is probably the sport you're focusing on. Two of the sports were football and field events (shot put, discus, javelin). It was less than twice mine. And 400 lbs was a deadlift weight. Get it off the ground, stand up straight, put it back down.
Yeah, deadlift. It's not like I have a 400lb snatch or a clean & jerk. I can clean 210. But I only snatch 135. That lift involves so much skill and frankly, I suck.
The balance and steadying strength required for that last one... ugh.
I managed a 300 lb bench press once.
And, of course, these are all "testing max" weights. I didn't do reps with any of them.
Now that's scary. You're one tough broad.
Oh, I haven't been able to do any of this in YEARS.
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
February 5, 2015 at 7:45 am
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
Sioban Krzywicki (2/5/2015)
Grant Fritchey (2/5/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
So, Salary.com has an article about job interviews and trick questions[/url]. I think it's fairly interesting. What do you think?Do you agree or disagree that trick questions are fair game?
Crap.
I want someone that is capable and knowledgeable. Then, I want a team fit. And, to a degree, the team fit is actually more important. If someone is at least smart and ready to learn we can teach them the job. But if they don't fit in with the team, how does performing well on knowing how to get cannibals and hunters across the river help me? I'd say it doesn't.
"Team fit" is really tricky. At bad places, racism and sexism and anti-lgbt attitudes are on the surface & keep people out. Even at good places there are a lot of more subtle aspects of those things going on that can keep good candidates out. I've been an interviewer at places where I see the women get harder questions or are judged more harshly and people don't even realize they're doing it. Women and minorities have a tendency to be judged on their "attitude" more and many times it is subtle prejudice and many times they are uncomfortable in the interview because they know they have strikes against them before they sit down just because of who they are.
I'm constantly examining how I interview people and what my reactions are during the interview and comparing them to how I interview others. It is the only way I know to try and combat the societal expectations we're all saddled with.
This is a serious issue, especially in the technology world. Women are forced to play roles both in the interview and then at the job after being hiring. It's more than "working twice as hard to get to the same place as a man." When we try to knowledge-share, we get second guessed. When we crow our achievements, we're told we're being arrogant or noisy. When we go to lead, we're often told we're being bossy.
And when we sit in an interview, we have to police ourselves more closely than a man might have to. You should track your own experience with this, Shiv. Other transitioned women I know have mentioned they were themselves never aware of the cultural bias until others applied to them (or stopped applying in the case of women transitioning to men).
Over the past 15+ years, I constantly notice how I am singled out for being intimidating. I'm short and don't look terribly athletic, yet apparently I scare men bigger and stronger than I am because I'm assertive. It's not that I'm trying to scare people or be particularly aggressive. I just call a spade a spade and stand up for my work and my team. If I find out I'm wrong, I apologize. But apparently a man can do exactly what I do, and can even be verbally abusive in the process (which I'm not), and everyone congratulates him for standing up for "what's right."
Fortunately I now work for an employer who is truly invested in workplace diversity and changing cultural norms so that everyone can stand up to speak for themselves. There are still issues. It takes time for these things to shake out of the zeitgheist. But we have resources for conflict and problem resolution, including gender-bias issues. And that's promising.
i know that this kind of thing happens. I just don't understand it. In fact, my best bosses, my best mentors, heck, the person who got me started on this whole IT ride, were each and every one, women. Maybe it was growing up with a single mom. I'm regularly a mutant.
As to the intimidation thing, trying having the same attitude and being 6'1" and 210lbs, into fitness and martial arts and also being... less than appropriate with language. I earned the "Scary DBA" nickname. And I've had SO many trips to HR... Although, funny enough, none at Redgate... yet. I've seldom been congratulated for standing up for "what's right" even when it was. I almost always get the call down because "it doesn't matter if you're right, you hurt Timmy's feelings."
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
February 5, 2015 at 7:49 am
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
Sioban Krzywicki (2/5/2015)
Grant Fritchey (2/5/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
So, Salary.com has an article about job interviews and trick questions[/url]. I think it's fairly interesting. What do you think?Do you agree or disagree that trick questions are fair game?
Crap.
I want someone that is capable and knowledgeable. Then, I want a team fit. And, to a degree, the team fit is actually more important. If someone is at least smart and ready to learn we can teach them the job. But if they don't fit in with the team, how does performing well on knowing how to get cannibals and hunters across the river help me? I'd say it doesn't.
"Team fit" is really tricky. At bad places, racism and sexism and anti-lgbt attitudes are on the surface & keep people out. Even at good places there are a lot of more subtle aspects of those things going on that can keep good candidates out. I've been an interviewer at places where I see the women get harder questions or are judged more harshly and people don't even realize they're doing it. Women and minorities have a tendency to be judged on their "attitude" more and many times it is subtle prejudice and many times they are uncomfortable in the interview because they know they have strikes against them before they sit down just because of who they are.
I'm constantly examining how I interview people and what my reactions are during the interview and comparing them to how I interview others. It is the only way I know to try and combat the societal expectations we're all saddled with.
This is a serious issue, especially in the technology world. Women are forced to play roles both in the interview and then at the job after being hiring. It's more than "working twice as hard to get to the same place as a man." When we try to knowledge-share, we get second guessed. When we crow our achievements, we're told we're being arrogant or noisy. When we go to lead, we're often told we're being bossy.
And when we sit in an interview, we have to police ourselves more closely than a man might have to. You should track your own experience with this, Shiv. Other transitioned women I know have mentioned they were themselves never aware of the cultural bias until others applied to them (or stopped applying in the case of women transitioning to men).
Over the past 15+ years, I constantly notice how I am singled out for being intimidating. I'm short and don't look terribly athletic, yet apparently I scare men bigger and stronger than I am because I'm assertive. It's not that I'm trying to scare people or be particularly aggressive. I just call a spade a spade and stand up for my work and my team. If I find out I'm wrong, I apologize. But apparently a man can do exactly what I do, and can even be verbally abusive in the process (which I'm not), and everyone congratulates him for standing up for "what's right."
Fortunately I now work for an employer who is truly invested in workplace diversity and changing cultural norms so that everyone can stand up to speak for themselves. There are still issues. It takes time for these things to shake out of the zeitgheist. But we have resources for conflict and problem resolution, including gender-bias issues. And that's promising.
Yeah, that's on my list of "things to note in my research". I'm also currently at a place that highly values diversity and is going out of its way to be accepting. There are a lot of women here and the reactions you describe aren't as blatant. They still happen, but people try to correct when they catch themselves doing it.
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
February 5, 2015 at 7:53 am
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
So, Salary.com has an article about job interviews and trick questions[/url]. I think it's fairly interesting. What do you think?Do you agree or disagree that trick questions are fair game?
Ugh.
Do I have to click 6 times to read the entire article?
Damn websites and their addiction to "page views".
Related to your question:
trick questions are unnecessary. They can help to see if someone can easily be thrown of their balance or to test if someone can improvise. But that's about it.
I can solve the riddle of putting 4 gallons of water in a 5 gallon container in 10 seconds.
Is it because I am super intelligent? (yes, but that's besides the point)
No, it's because I watched Die Hard 3 ten times when I was a kid.
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February 5, 2015 at 7:57 am
Grant Fritchey (2/5/2015)
Sioban Krzywicki (2/5/2015)
Grant Fritchey (2/5/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
So, Salary.com has an article about job interviews and trick questions[/url]. I think it's fairly interesting. What do you think?Do you agree or disagree that trick questions are fair game?
Crap.
I want someone that is capable and knowledgeable. Then, I want a team fit. And, to a degree, the team fit is actually more important. If someone is at least smart and ready to learn we can teach them the job. But if they don't fit in with the team, how does performing well on knowing how to get cannibals and hunters across the river help me? I'd say it doesn't.
"Team fit" is really tricky. At bad places, racism and sexism and anti-lgbt attitudes are on the surface & keep people out. Even at good places there are a lot of more subtle aspects of those things going on that can keep good candidates out. I've been an interviewer at places where I see the women get harder questions or are judged more harshly and people don't even realize they're doing it. Women and minorities have a tendency to be judged on their "attitude" more and many times it is subtle prejudice and many times they are uncomfortable in the interview because they know they have strikes against them before they sit down just because of who they are.
I'm constantly examining how I interview people and what my reactions are during the interview and comparing them to how I interview others. It is the only way I know to try and combat the societal expectations we're all saddled with.
No arguments. I had to go through DAYS of training to be allowed to do interviews at my last employer. It was tough.
Reminds me of an interview horror story I had. I interviewed this lady who kept saying over and over and over "At my church..." followed by a story related to the question I asked, assuming it wasn't technical questions. She just kept bringing it up. Over and over. I finally said, "Oh, where do you go to church" seriously not thinking anything of it. She turned into Linda Blair. I swear her head rotated 360, her voice dropped 16 octaves and her eyes turned red, "YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ASK THAT KIND OF QUESTION!" I didn't know what to do beyond apologizing. I was freaked. It seemed like such an innocuous question, especially after she brought it up so very often (I mean it, she talked about her church in relation to almost any question asked). That was pre-training and I now know that the question is considered "inappropriate." But it's one of those things about interviewing people that just makes the whole thing incredibly difficult. You can be 100% without malice, 100% without prejudice, just responding as one human being to another in the most human possible way... and be 100% in the wrong. Yee ha!
Oh, and she didn't get the job. However, we stayed in touch and I gave her a recommendation to another position that she was more qualified for.
And we all have prejudices that come to play. For example, I know one of mine. I worked for three dot coms back in the day. Each was run by Harvard Business School grads. Each of these grads were complete jerks, all of whom just crashed the company into the ground, two of whom stole from the company, and one of whom was actually later prosecuted for a whole slew of crimes. When interviewing, I'll ask "How many Harvard Business School grads are in the management team" because I don't trust them. And I recognize that it's prejudice, but I can't help it.
Being aware of it and checking yourself is really the most you can do as an interviewer. Working with the company if they don't have that kind of attitude is also good.
And yes, the biggest trip-ups come when you leave the job-related questions and try to be personal. Not that it shouldn't be done, just that that's where the biggest land mines are. You want to include personal bits because it puts people at ease, because it is how we connect as humans and this is all valuable, but you have to steer away from areas that can be considered prejudicial. And if those questions are asked, there are ways to say it isn't a reasonable question without going all Linda Blair.
One of my prejudices like your Harvard Business School one is that I no-longer consider working for financial institutions. Big banks are a mess and I don't see "investment" firms as adding anything to society.
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
February 5, 2015 at 7:58 am
Koen Verbeeck (2/5/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
So, Salary.com has an article about job interviews and trick questions[/url]. I think it's fairly interesting. What do you think?Do you agree or disagree that trick questions are fair game?
Ugh.
Do I have to click 6 times to read the entire article?
Damn websites and their addiction to "page views".
Related to your question:
trick questions are unnecessary. They can help to see if someone can easily be thrown of their balance or to test if someone can improvise. But that's about it.
I can solve the riddle of putting 4 gallons of water in a 5 gallon container in 10 seconds.
Is it because I am super intelligent? (yes, but that's besides the point)
No, it's because I watched Die Hard 3 ten times when I was a kid.
I only read the first page because of that. : -)
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
February 5, 2015 at 8:00 am
Grant Fritchey (2/5/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
Sioban Krzywicki (2/5/2015)
Grant Fritchey (2/5/2015)
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
So, Salary.com has an article about job interviews and trick questions[/url]. I think it's fairly interesting. What do you think?Do you agree or disagree that trick questions are fair game?
Crap.
I want someone that is capable and knowledgeable. Then, I want a team fit. And, to a degree, the team fit is actually more important. If someone is at least smart and ready to learn we can teach them the job. But if they don't fit in with the team, how does performing well on knowing how to get cannibals and hunters across the river help me? I'd say it doesn't.
"Team fit" is really tricky. At bad places, racism and sexism and anti-lgbt attitudes are on the surface & keep people out. Even at good places there are a lot of more subtle aspects of those things going on that can keep good candidates out. I've been an interviewer at places where I see the women get harder questions or are judged more harshly and people don't even realize they're doing it. Women and minorities have a tendency to be judged on their "attitude" more and many times it is subtle prejudice and many times they are uncomfortable in the interview because they know they have strikes against them before they sit down just because of who they are.
I'm constantly examining how I interview people and what my reactions are during the interview and comparing them to how I interview others. It is the only way I know to try and combat the societal expectations we're all saddled with.
This is a serious issue, especially in the technology world. Women are forced to play roles both in the interview and then at the job after being hiring. It's more than "working twice as hard to get to the same place as a man." When we try to knowledge-share, we get second guessed. When we crow our achievements, we're told we're being arrogant or noisy. When we go to lead, we're often told we're being bossy.
And when we sit in an interview, we have to police ourselves more closely than a man might have to. You should track your own experience with this, Shiv. Other transitioned women I know have mentioned they were themselves never aware of the cultural bias until others applied to them (or stopped applying in the case of women transitioning to men).
Over the past 15+ years, I constantly notice how I am singled out for being intimidating. I'm short and don't look terribly athletic, yet apparently I scare men bigger and stronger than I am because I'm assertive. It's not that I'm trying to scare people or be particularly aggressive. I just call a spade a spade and stand up for my work and my team. If I find out I'm wrong, I apologize. But apparently a man can do exactly what I do, and can even be verbally abusive in the process (which I'm not), and everyone congratulates him for standing up for "what's right."
Fortunately I now work for an employer who is truly invested in workplace diversity and changing cultural norms so that everyone can stand up to speak for themselves. There are still issues. It takes time for these things to shake out of the zeitgheist. But we have resources for conflict and problem resolution, including gender-bias issues. And that's promising.
i know that this kind of thing happens. I just don't understand it. In fact, my best bosses, my best mentors, heck, the person who got me started on this whole IT ride, were each and every one, women. Maybe it was growing up with a single mom. I'm regularly a mutant.
As to the intimidation thing, trying having the same attitude and being 6'1" and 210lbs, into fitness and martial arts and also being... less than appropriate with language. I earned the "Scary DBA" nickname. And I've had SO many trips to HR... Although, funny enough, none at Redgate... yet. I've seldom been congratulated for standing up for "what's right" even when it was. I almost always get the call down because "it doesn't matter if you're right, you hurt Timmy's feelings."
I'm in IT because my mom was a Systems Analyst when I was growing up. She was an amazing role model.
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
February 5, 2015 at 8:23 am
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
This is a serious issue, especially in the technology world. Women are forced to play roles both in the interview and then at the job after being hiring. It's more than "working twice as hard to get to the same place as a man." When we try to knowledge-share, we get second guessed. When we crow our achievements, we're told we're being arrogant or noisy. When we go to lead, we're often told we're being bossy.
I must be weird or something, as I base technical competency on...wait for it...technical competency.
Whether someone can be taught is about attitude and that can get tricky. The "good fit" part can be very tricky.
Technical competency is easy.
February 5, 2015 at 8:25 am
Brandie Tarvin (2/5/2015)
So I just got a workplace reminder to wear red tomorrow because of National Red Day[/url].I didn't even know this was a thing, but it is. Wanna participate?
Now that I'm actually planning what I'm going to wear in to work, I tend to know a day or two ahead what I'm going to be wearing any given day. Tomorrow was already a red top, so I'll stick with that.
These things always remind me a little bit of when I was in college and the campus LGBT group did a "Wear jeans to show you support LGBT rights!" Since 80% of the school was wearing jeans every day anyway...
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
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