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>>zdw+(OP)
> Early on, Valerie realized that she unconsciously thought of literally every single job other than software engineer as “for people who weren’t good enough to be a software engineer” – and that she thought this because other software engineers had been telling her that for her entire career.

This spoke to me for two reasons.

1) Plenty of professions are like this. Lawyers, consultants, doctors, bankers, stock brokers etc. Everyone thinks that their profession is the 'best' one.

2) As someone in tech, but not a Software Developer, the number of times I've gone into technical conferences (yes, even the 'inclusive' ones) and got the feeling of being lesser just because I don't write code for a living bothers me. In particular, the stigma associated with being in customer facing roles (particularly sales) is strong.

>>fphhot+ff
Not just for dev. I went to NIPS last year (and am in DS at startups in SF) and about 80% of the time as you introduce yourself the other person just stares at your affiliation on your tag. I went to a company (nameless) afterparty where the host DS literally stared at my tag for 2 seconds with a look of some serious disgust of how did I happen to get in without Google/FB/Apple/etc. or MIT/Stanford affiliation.