Comments on: Software Development Team Diversity

By: rita

rita — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:16:30 +0000

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By: jessica

jessica — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:06:05 +0000

“Software Development Team Diversity” yes, i am agree with you

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Best Jobs To Meet Women — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:15:41 +0000

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:13:22 +0000

I don’t get too hung up on the proper pronoun, although I could have substituted “people” for “guys.” Sara, I bow to your mastery of the unicode character set.

By: Sara Golemon

Sara Golemon — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:16:16 +0000

Agreement all around, just want to toss in two thoughts:

1) Masculine forms *are* the appropriate forms for unknown or mixed gender groups. If you feel you must avoid insulting those fringe feminists who think you’re personally attacking their sex, please go for the more casual “folks”, “gang”, or ever [sic] “team” for groups and “coder”, “coworker”, or “whatstheirbucket” for an individual. If I hear that ridiculous pseudo-pronoun “Ze” (gender neutral She/He) come out of one more angry feminist’s mouth, I just may scream.

2) Do not hire women engineers because they are women. Do not pass over women engineers because they are women. Hire competent and appropriately skilled individuals to do the job and stop worrying about what’s between their legs.

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By: stefan

stefan — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:49:59 +0000

I really loved being on one of the most international teams I’ve ever been on while working at TomTom. Aside from learning a lot in the technical area, I also learned so much about people, different cultures and working together in general, that this was an excellent experience.

As for the experience factor: I feel that the combination of less-experienced vs. more experiences should be 1-on-1 or 2 (less)-on-1 (experienced). Making the gap bigger can mean the seniors will be doing too much helping and too little actual work. But yes, the less experienced are needed just as much as the experienced.

By: Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:07:09 +0000

For what it’s worth, I use “guy” as an informal, gender-neutral reference. I know “gal” is the feminine form, but no one I know uses that. At least not in New York.

“Hey, how are you guys?”

By: Patrick Mueller

Patrick Mueller — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:08:08 +0000

It’s great to see more people talking about diversity in the workplace. One of my pet peeves, and I’m trying to correct myself on this as well, is referring to teams or even people with masculine words. For instance, under your Technical Background section, you reference the word “guys” a couple of times. I’ve been trying to train myself in replacing that with a gender-neutral term, like “folks”.