On the same note: I remember a 3 week period where I'd throw ideas out in our dev Slack channel, like:
'hey we oughta look into Vue because jQuery aint the shit no more'
'hey we oughta take a weekend to chill together and crank out some documentation'
'hey we oughta have a shared dev library. like bring some books into the office so we can all share knowledge'.
Eventually I just went: 'or, fuck my ideas, I'll shut up'
And I did.
But despite literally all of this: I fucking love programming. And I dont want to do anything else.
I spent two years being told I'm not the right fit for developer jobs that I was *obviously* the right fit for.
I was a fucking security guard for over a year while *still* looking for a dev gig.
And while the job I have doesn't pay much -- hell I still have to figure out how im going to make the rent come January -- I fucking love this profession. I fucking love software.
I know there are folks on the fediverse who work for companies like Google and Amazon (Ive seen your bio's, you cant hide from me).
I wanna know: how many Black devs do you work with? How many black devs -- or fuck, just Black folks in general -- have been hired on around your sphere?
I can definitely guess as to what these statistics are, but I wanna know forreal. Let me know.
@somarasu I've worked a job where there was one black employee in my department. He was in management and left after about seven years. There were so few women there that, at one point, I had matched with all (three) of my female-presenting colleagues under the age of 35 on bumble. There were about 140 people in the department at the time.