Meet the new boss

[supergee]

I thought geek culture would mean you get a job by being able to do it, rather than by social skills and guessing the unwritten rules. Fat chance.

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[weofodthignen]

I'm a little suspicious of this author's research. The point about being required to live in the City not on the Peninsula is telling - that's SoMa prejudice, not even part of Silly Valley (which starts somewhere on the Peninsula and uses the City as a bedroom community and location for sitcom shoots and customer showrooms). The whole article is biased towards startups, a surprise given the invoking of Zuckerberg, of Paypal in the jump-off and of Google in the illo. Startups are going to have a higher percentage of males and under-30s, yes. But one does not have to start one's career at a start-up. (Most don't, and unless you start the business in your dorm room in the time-honored fashion, it's a risky way to start in terms of building a rep.) I also wanted to know why the author is so convinced they wouldn't get called in (kind of a case of putting a revolver on the mantlepiece in Act 1 and not using it), but that would probably be nosy.

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