It really, really does. There was one time when we got a resume where the person's "this is my project to show off!" was (to avoid specifics) basically the epitome of "white techbro does something that he clearly thought was THE COOLEST except oh my god why would you and more to the point why would you think that's a good representation of yourself for a resume??" We looked at it, looked at each other, and then my (straight, white, male) coworker said "uhhhhh, I don't....think this guy is gonna fit in here if this is what he's building" and I was like "oh thank God I don't have to be the one to say it."
(When I started, I, a white lady, was 25% of the diversity statistic of my team; I think it says a lot about my workplace that nobody ever gave me shit for it or treated me as less-than.)
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(When I started, I, a white lady, was 25% of the diversity statistic of my team; I think it says a lot about my workplace that nobody ever gave me shit for it or treated me as less-than.)