Hi, thanks for the comment. We couldn't agree more. There's a systemic problem with STEM education that affects the entire industry.
We welcome female experts and will be doing outreach in this area. On the bright side, we've had quite a few female customers already and are happy to be contributing to righting wrongs.
I didn't mention sexism or imply gender prejudice, because I don't believe that's what happened here.
I ran this by a female developer for sanity checking, and I like what she came back with: "Transgendered people don't make up 50% of the population. Women do. Female software developers make up 18% of the industry, so if you're not getting 18% women interested in working for/with you, you have a communication problem."
For the record, I have no idea how many of the people on their roster identify as transgendered, and neither do you.
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This looks like a great concept, but I'm disappointed to see that out of 40 people available to work with, only one person is a woman.
Surely there's an opportunity to aim higher here? There's many smart female coders that would probably love to be involved in something like this.
Hi, thanks for the comment. We couldn't agree more. There's a systemic problem with STEM education that affects the entire industry.
We welcome female experts and will be doing outreach in this area. On the bright side, we've had quite a few female customers already and are happy to be contributing to righting wrongs.
-Maksim
Are you also disappointed that there aren't any transgendered experts listed?
Diversity is great, yes, but can we please stop suggesting that there is sexism happening here?
I didn't mention sexism or imply gender prejudice, because I don't believe that's what happened here.
I ran this by a female developer for sanity checking, and I like what she came back with: "Transgendered people don't make up 50% of the population. Women do. Female software developers make up 18% of the industry, so if you're not getting 18% women interested in working for/with you, you have a communication problem."
For the record, I have no idea how many of the people on their roster identify as transgendered, and neither do you.
Edit: This is my complete misreading of the situation. I genuinely apologize.