@greenrocket shares how she can talk about code for an hour, and people still assume she’s a recruiter.

Preach.

This guy immediately decides to call her out as an “incapable coder” that doesn’t “deserve the respect she expects”. He then goes on to give her some heartfelt career advice about how she needs to be “as tough as an engineer” (because apparently, a quality needed for coding as a living is being “tough”).

You know that feeling you’re feeling right now? At least two of the commenters on the thread got it down in writing:

I’ll shorthand the part where @blueplug defends himself and asks that @greenrocket shares what she “talked for *an hour* ‘about code’” (could not be more caustic), so others could judge her worthiness as an engineer. @greenrocket gladly shares what she talked about, and then after someone tries to recruit her (since she’s now, you know, proven she’s not some dumb pretend-programmer lady who is just spouting lady words, apparently):

I’m ashamed to admit that at this point, I still didn’t know who Gayle was.

So, for those of you who were as unenlightened as I was, and are too lazy to go to her website, here’s the kicker of this whole debacle:

Gayle Laakmann McDowell is the Founder and CEO of CareerCup.com, and the author of “Cracking The Coding Interview” (pretty much THE most well known coding interviewing prep book, ever to exist).