Saturday, September 13, 2025

Discrimination Experienced at Tech Companies

I have experienced something like this at Ruby shops before. My girlfriend keeps getting mistreated at her job where she works as a Scrum Master. Some devs on her team miss her meetings and ignore her deadlines, and then instead of apologizing for their bad work ethic, they lie and bully my girlfriend by pretending they're the "victims" and she's the "oppressor", which makes zero sense given that she's like the nicest person and incapable of being mean towards anyone. 

Worse yet, instead of the manager bringing the other devs and my girlfriend into a room to have them speak their sides of the conflict and hash out their differences respectfully (as done at normal ethical companies), or at least investigating if the claims by the devs about my girlfriend are even true at all (they're not), he decided to blindly trust the claims without giving equality to all sides (meaning he is taking sides with one side instead of staying unbiased and letting both sides be equally trustworthy or equally have to prove their claim). Afterwards, he decided to split the team into 2 teams with the excuse that "there is no cultural fit between some people on the team, so it's better to split them into 2 different teams". That's ridiculous as it completely ignores the bad work ethic of the lying developers (like not attending meetings and not hitting deadlines) and ignores the fact that my girlfriend is a certified Scrum Master and a very friendly team player. She would be a great fit in any tech culture given that she is a qualified team player. On the other hand, the other devs are very individualistic and don't care about the team or teamwork whatsoever. So now, they are using "culture fit" as a way to discriminate against my girlfriend and defend bad coworkers who are literally missing meetings without being held responsible while bullying my girlfriend and treating her with discrimination. They don't see themselves as equals to her, yet as being on a higher platform from which they don't need to follow the same standards my girlfriend follows like attending meetings and respecting deadlines. 

I actually cover these exact kinds of discrimination in my writeup on covert discrimination (like having double standards and using "culture fit" as an excuse to discriminate): https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2024/12/how-to-spot-covert-discrimination-in.html

Stop covert discrimination from happening at work places by spreading awareness via sharing this article and the one linked above. 

In my experience, 100% of companies that have 1000 employees or more (the kind of company my girlfriend works for) practice some sort of discrimination while treating employees as numbers, with some treated as part of the "elite" and others treated as second class citizens regardless of their technical qualifications and merit. That's why a number of years ago, I stopped accepting high paying jobs at 1000+ employee companies even if I am fully qualified for them technically because I discovered that they are all essentially discriminatory environments that prioritize greed/pride over servitude to customers and coworkers (any company that makes more than a certain large amount of money cares more about greed than providing 100% equal service to everyone without discrimination). I am much happier working for small and mid-size companies where such discrimination doesn't take place while working in a much more agile fashion than any 1000+ employee company could.

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