They have jobs because they throw in fluffy buzzwords like "intersection" and other filler to allow their employers to tick boxes for:

- B-Corp

- DE&I

- Carbon Neutral

etc.

"The beatings will continue until intersectionality improves..."

What credentials related to software engineering? Please expand and do not post nebulous comments like these.

I'm aware of who this person is, been following their work since their egghead.io doodle days. What I would never do is put this person in a position involving software research when they were never professionally a software developer nor were they academically trained like one either.

I'm sorry but this is just a perfect encapsulation of why American corporations are brazenly bad and corrupt without actual competition.

This is honestly no different than RFK Jr being the Secretary of HHS. I'm sure if you spoke with him, he'd say he was highly competent at this job too.

By credentials you mean, and I mean no offence, that she is an established artist and has a great personal website?

She is internet famous, sure, but she still has to prove if her ideas on how to evolve GitHub are the right one.

Idk. If I learned that the head of design for Github worked as a linux contributor and C developer before taking on that role I would have a similar reaction.

“Few years ago” is about a decade in design, to be fair.

I’m not sure what staff level means at GitHub, but at some other companies it’s just “senior++”, and people with 10yoe get that title quite often.