DEV Community: Maria Michou

Why do we have more male applicants than female ones?

Maria Michou — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 16:06:38 +0000

I often discuss with my (male) colleagues the hiring process our company follows and the characteristics of job applicants for a given role. For women in tech, what are the criteria for selecting a particular job/role/company?

I for sure I’m biased; I really believe that it depends on the circumstances. Depending on the background each woman has, and what she wants to do next, company A might provide a more viable environment for her to grow than company B. What I’m actually saying is that women decide based on more or less the same (or similar) criteria than men do.

However, I find difficult to answer the question that follows: “Then, why do we have more male applicants in our company than (a rather disappointing number of) female ones”?

Checkout a branch by its id

Maria Michou — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:44:15 +0000

When you're working on or peer reviewing or testing, etc more than 2 branches, it's difficult to remember the exact name of every branch and copy/paste is an inefficient option. So, since it's relatively easy to remember the number (id) of the story, we could come up with an alias or better a function to add to our .bashrc, .zshrc or wherever we keep our favourite aliases.

For that, we need to know the id of the branch we want to checkout.
E.g. if the branch is: prefix/PPRJ-123/name-of-the-task, then the id is 123.
Also, we assume the id is unique for the repository.

Gist:

Nevertheless, Maria Coded

Maria Michou — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 12:36:32 +0000

Nothing new here:

I started getting into tech initially because I wanted to apply knowledge from natural science domains to computer science oriented ones.

I began to code because I wanted to prove that I can build something that ideally could be useful to people. I started working in academia and had a - bit more than a - decade experience in research.

Now, It's been 2 yrs since I switched to industry and haven't regretted my decision. Very tough at first, learning and training from scratch, but so rewarding and satisfying!

I am astonished by the gender inequality that still exists in the tech industry in 2018. On the other hand, I am positively surprised that the world is changing and more companies/organisations include skilled people, regardless of their gender.

My hope is in the near future, I'll be yet another (good) developer who just happens to be a woman.

My advice for young girls who want to be part of the tech world, is just go for it!