Pamela FurstSenior Manager, Customer Success

But you don't look like an engineer.

Name: But you don't look like an engineer.
Uploaded: 2024-09-18T18:45:50+00:00
Duration: 15 s
Channel: Pamela Furst
Description: In this brief YouTube excerpt, Speaker A asks about instances where people have doubted the speaker's status as a software engineer and requests the…

18 Sept 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief YouTube excerpt, Speaker A asks about instances where people have doubted the speaker's status as a software engineer and requests the story of the most egregious person who expressed that doubt. Speaker B responds by sharing a recurring microaggression: being told “you don’t look like an engineer.” They humorously note that if they received a nickel for every occurrence, they would have many nickels, illustrating how frequently this stereotype is encountered across different settings.

How many times have you encountered a person or an individual who has doubted that you're a software engineer, that you have engineering skills and coding capabilities? Tell me the biggest asshole you've ever met that said something to you.
I don't even know if I could pick, but I will say if I had a nickel for every time someone says you don't look like an engineer, I wouldn't be rich, but I would definitely, you could hear the change swishing around everywhere I'd go, cuz it, I'd have a lot of nickels.