> she mentioned a female developer who couldn't write SQL queries
I'd wager a third of the nodejs "developer community" could be described that way. The key thing is was she hired to write sql queries?
I'd wager a third of the nodejs "developer community" could be described that way. The key thing is was she hired to write sql queries?
Except, make 'technical management' decisions like "we should use mongodb because it's web-scale".
I think this is untrue. I know a lot of male "sofware engineers" who are totally incompetent and remain well employed.
I tend to reserve judgement until their effort can be judged. If he or she is slow but learning and improving, I'd accept (and probably raise with a manager) that the hiring process is flawed and try to help him/her.
If its just utter idiocy, I'm less forgiving.
I literally had a business analyst come to me - the new guy at the time - on her last day after several years of working in the org and ask me what her email address is.
Or the BA who insisted she didnt need to write a clear and specific spec for a feature, because she could just open up dreamweaver and put some buttons on a page.
Those sorts of people I have zero fucking time for, and will drink merrily when they quit/are fired.
And then they're your boss. Or your boss's mate.