There’s plenty of evidence that the competitive, “best in show” approach used in interviewing extends into the core of tech culture itself.

The overwhelming focus on imposter syndrome doesn’t provide a space to process the power dynamics affecting you; you get gaslighted into thinking it’s *you* causing all the problems.

Bootcamps are a micro example of how the tech industry is built on the emotional labor of the same groups who are marginalized within it.

Punishing and irrelevant interview processes seek to produce disciplined high-tech employees, jumping through arbitrary hoops at the whims of employers.

Tech culture doles out imposter syndrome on one side, hubris on the other.

In an industry where black, Latina, and indigenous womyn make up less than 3% of the field, we know that walking through those code school doors, we will be outliers.