catehstn’s avatarcatehstn’s Twitter Archive—№ 31,158

  1. So tired of hearing stories from women about how they have worked in tech but never been allowed to /succeed/ in tech.
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      Your new senior engineer is on your team already, if you could only get the other engineers to listen to her.
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        It is almost impossible to do your job, demonstrate "leadership" & "technical depth" when the people who you work with won't listen to you.
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          The best advice I have for women on to career progression is: you are unlikely to get anywhere when your colleagues treat you like shit.
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            If you are underrep in tech and reading these tweets thinking "it me" my DMs are open and I will help you if I can.
            1. …in reply to @catehstn
              I talked about some of this stuff on lessthanorequal with Aleen and I would love it if you listened to it. relay.fm/ltoe/81
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                Final thought: when I hear these stories the first question I ask is "what the fuck was your manager doing". Answers fall into 2 categories.
                1. …in reply to @catehstn
                  1) Making things worse. This includes victim blaming and gas lighting. Telling women how to be different, or pretending it's not happening.
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                    2) writing code. I wish I got to write more code. But if you prioritize code over managing maybe you shouldn't be a manager.
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                      The health of your team and the emotional well being of your direct reports should be more important than your self-identity as a "coder".
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                        This is the job.