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Came here to say this too. Same for ADHD.

Same for Unity

I was fired and filed for unemployment and reported that it was a hostile environment. The benefits were quickly approved and no questions were asked beyond what the form asked for.

Here is a great article on the size of women's and men's pockets and phones: https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/

> some mild mental disorder like TOC or ADHD.

Can you not downplay this? Some people might have a mild variation of a disorder but many, like myself, suffer deeply.

I failed one because I used callbacks instead of promises...

> Is there anything wrong with preferring people who have spent a lot of time practicing leetcode?

If you care about diversity and inclusion, yes. This interview format prefers people with formal education, extra time, good mental health, no kids, etc.

This can easily eliminate some women + caregivers + those with kids, the self taught, people that struggle with mental health or learning disabilities (including ADHD), etc.

Anecdotal story: Studying LC because I'm self taught led me into burn out and I ended up with an ADHD diagnosis (common for women to get diagnosed at an older age anyway). My ADHD brain wants to do things it likes and studying LC isn't one of them so it led to being burned out faster. A former manager even told me to slow down and I didn't listen!

I struggled for a while with interviews and getting my current job. Each additional interview became extremely traumatizing for me (which is probably compounded by Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria that comes with ADHD). It's been almost a year since I got my job and I still worry about interviewing again in the future.

For me, being a woman in tech with ADHD makes it really hard to walk into an interview feeling confident. It's intimidating to be obviously different then the vast majority of my interviewers and I'm so worried if I'll keep my train of thought and remember things or talk in a way that makes sense. And it spirals into me worrying if I make women in tech look bad because so many people seem to believe women are inherently worse.

It's possible to take a lower dose for a longer time period to lessen the side effects.

No? Accutane is often the last resort option when everything else fails.

The "relatively low free" part threw me off. Is that a joke? COBRA was $600/mo the one time I might have needed it. That was 6x what I was paying at the job I was in before.

I've also had email from a Google recruiter go to the spam box...

"inherent interests"?? Anecdotally...my two biggest passions are photography (artistic/visual creativity in general) and software development. Neither of these were innate. My grandma and my dad were the ones that exposed me to creativity and computers throughout my entire childhood, and then a boyfriend who sparked my interested in code.

If money and the like were of no concern I might consider pursuing photography over coding. However, just because I love that a little more, doesn't necessarily mean I'm not interested in code.

There are absolutely people who will pursue things they have little to no interest in, but there are also people who will pick one over another because one is just a little bit better for whatever reason. How about we don't discount that people can have multiple passions?

This reminds me so much of when I started (almost 5 years ago now). My then boyfriend shared his interest in design and development and I ended up taking some programming courses for fun. I had no clue wtf I was doing for so long but I liked it...I also made a little app and made my brother click a button that spit out the text "You're stupid".

The courses and self teaching went a long way. I started at a crappy digital design agency and now work at a company many people have heard of!

Good luck to your girlfriend! I'm inspired by her.

I second this, also as a developer at EA.

EA does...