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MartinCron on May 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Peter Thiel's unexpected job requirement

Not that I want to make every thread a "sexism in tech" discussion, but I have personally noticed more women feeling intimidated and discouraged by overblown and strangely specific bullshit requirements in job listings. So, if you're wondering why you don't get many female applicants to your job listings, maybe you should stop asking for experience in every language from Ada to ZPL.

tomjen3 on May 15, 2012 [–]

Nah the reason you get so few applicants is that there are so few females in programming to beging with.

strlen on May 16, 2012 | [–]

I don't think this true: despite all talk of elitism, CS classes at universities like Stanford are actually more diverse than technology companies.

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