Good grief! She should take the female out of the question. Find a personable developer with a decade or two of experience, so that he has some perspective. Ask away. Most likely he would be willing to spend the necessary time to answer her questions. And follow the trail. If he is in corporate development, but she is interested in startups, ask him to recommend a friend. There are many paid paths from photoshop or page layout to hardcore developer. All it needs is intelligence and a willingness to work hard.
EDIT: So I posted before I read the article :-) If she wanted to be on the Sr. management track, she should have gone to a smaller company, where ability would have been recognized without being on the basketball team, or learn to play basketball. If you want to fasttrack, go where the track is fast.
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Good grief! She should take the female out of the question. Find a personable developer with a decade or two of experience, so that he has some perspective. Ask away. Most likely he would be willing to spend the necessary time to answer her questions. And follow the trail. If he is in corporate development, but she is interested in startups, ask him to recommend a friend. There are many paid paths from photoshop or page layout to hardcore developer. All it needs is intelligence and a willingness to work hard.
EDIT: So I posted before I read the article :-) If she wanted to be on the Sr. management track, she should have gone to a smaller company, where ability would have been recognized without being on the basketball team, or learn to play basketball. If you want to fasttrack, go where the track is fast.
She could also learn about tech, which she seems to think that women seeking management positions in tech companies should not have to do.
(At least one tech company also thought they could hire a non-techie woman as CEO. Hopefully the rest of us can learn from HP's mistake.)