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Here's a good option: training people to be respectful and open to people already hired at a company. I have no idea why some engineers treat people as poorly as they do.
In general people are respectful. I would reserve the training for those that aren't
This is an interesting question with no one answer fits all but I'll generalize an answer anyways. Ego and stress. Ego, thinking you are God's gift to universe gives you the feeling of no harm can be done. Stress, you just run out of fucks to give so instead of giving formality, you just get curt and blunt. The worse part is once toxic always toxic. As a PM one way to help with this is try to make as few interruptions in the day as possible for n the dev so they are focused. Grouping meetings all together has been very effective for my teams. Managers end up with more random schedules this way though, but it's been very effective.
Fake news
Look, Trump is on blind, dismissing everything that is unfavorable as fake news!
You also really have to be willing to grow as a person. As a guy, it still took me a while to learn how to be more likable and be seen as more promising. You usually don't get promoted to a higher position for doing your current position well. Need to take more risks, grab more responsibility.
Personally, I think women are being failed by school in a somewhat different way from guys... Ultimately, you usually don't get ahead by just doing your assigned work well.... But a lot of people assume that that is all it should take. That you should be given promotions based on good performance on assigned tasks (kinda like in school), and not based on business factors or relationships (the way it usually works out)
Fake news.
Google is ridiculous. I lost all faith in them when they supported "clock boy". Anyone with a shred of common sense could tell he was full of shit.
He was a child.
What is a specialist at google? Why are all these women specialists?
The only problem with women in tech is that most of them apparently don't know how to read, since they keep making comments about an "anti-diversity manifesto" which was neither a manifesto nor anti-diversity. In fact if you read it, the whole point was how to do a better job of supporting women in tech.
I dunno, dude, "manifesto" is subjective (a 10 page memo means you have a pretty high vested interest in whatever your topic is), but he does actually suggest cutting diversity programs and deemphasizing empathy as two of his key recommendations. If it's not anti-diversity, it's anti diversity programs, and I fail to see the distinction.
He doesn't suggest cutting diversity programs, he suggests that some specific programs that Google has are not the right diversity programs, and suggests others. He is clearly pro-diversity and doesn't think discrimination is solved with discrimination.
The problem is low diversity in engineering school. And it's because girls don't want to attend engineering school more than anything.
I sympathize with Qichen's concerns in the post, but I don't understand the implication of her argument. Sure Google may not meet her bad for good diversity, but what large tech company does? Shouldn't the comparison be made to the next best option to determine the "best" instead of some ideal future state? Further is it still not true that google is moving in the right direction? As in, google may not meet this bar now but active attempts will get there some day. I'm curious what satisfactory alternative there is.
She could have 1) left the tech industry, or 2) moved to a startup with a smaller number of people and consequently a more cohesive and welcoming culture towards women. The article says that she's at Spotify now, but who knows if it's better.
Move to what? Pharma? Finance? Consulting? The point is that google is not perfect but it's probably better than almost any other company it's size. The startup argument doesn't address the scalability issue. Hopefully one day this will stop being a problem. But in the meantime, relentless searching for some ideal state will be fruitless.