Sometimes a girl simply has to do what a girl has to do… And whether one is a man or a woman, one never wants to miss a chance to make a Gamma someone else’s problem.
This is why I never trust references. I really need to develop some questions just to determine the SSH of an applicant. “Tell me about a time you made a mistake. What happened? What did you do after you discovered it?” Is usually a decent one. But isn’t also such a standard question that I some Gammas probably just google model answers.
One thing that is really strange in software engineering is that I swear that in my experience at least, it was mostly a delta affair with a few bravos sprinkled here and there to act as the Liaison between the executives and the delta troops during the 90s.
We dressed better, we got happy when we had to use a suit to visit a customer, we respected hierarchy and felt ourserves at home within it, we valued experience. In the 90s most of us where heteros, at least half married with kids. There was the occasional gamma, the occasional weirdo, but they were at most tolerated, not celebrated.
By the way, I don't remember us calling ourselves software engineers, we refered to ourselves in a functional way: programmers, system analysts, DBAs or System Admins.
It was never an exciting profession, but it was a respected one, like being an accountant. We definitelly had our place in society and were not hell bent on perverting it like the modern Big Tech blue hair gamma.
But somehow, around the 00s, I felt like the profession was under an invasion of gammas, and things have been downhill since then.
This is why I never trust references. I really need to develop some questions just to determine the SSH of an applicant. “Tell me about a time you made a mistake. What happened? What did you do after you discovered it?” Is usually a decent one. But isn’t also such a standard question that I some Gammas probably just google model answers.
One thing that is really strange in software engineering is that I swear that in my experience at least, it was mostly a delta affair with a few bravos sprinkled here and there to act as the Liaison between the executives and the delta troops during the 90s.
We dressed better, we got happy when we had to use a suit to visit a customer, we respected hierarchy and felt ourserves at home within it, we valued experience. In the 90s most of us where heteros, at least half married with kids. There was the occasional gamma, the occasional weirdo, but they were at most tolerated, not celebrated.
By the way, I don't remember us calling ourselves software engineers, we refered to ourselves in a functional way: programmers, system analysts, DBAs or System Admins.
It was never an exciting profession, but it was a respected one, like being an accountant. We definitelly had our place in society and were not hell bent on perverting it like the modern Big Tech blue hair gamma.
But somehow, around the 00s, I felt like the profession was under an invasion of gammas, and things have been downhill since then.