Non-white men in tech.
You may think youโre being paid well, but itโs incredibly likely youโre being paid less than your colleagues in the same role and level.
Ask your colleagues what they make. If youโre one of those men, please offer it.
I was once making 75k less.
If developers named their children the way they name their variables, they would be called:
a
b
c
x
y
child
child1
child2
c1
son1
daughter1
d2
sweetButClingyFirstChild
:-D
What is the 'code' name of your child, friend, or anyone else?
Them: Join our team so it can be diverse!
Me: Thatโs offensive and tokenizing.
Them: Clearly you donโt want diversity! You just want to complain.
You can recruit a wide cross section of people by appealing to their skill sets and their needs.
Not doing so is a choice.
I will support an event to introduce some new students, because of corona it will only be a remote event. Do you have an ideas how we could help them to get to know each other in a fun way?๐ค