Women in Software Engineering, I need your help!!!

maddiegolison·Dec 29, 2023

Hello All! Happy New Year!

My name is Maddie and I am a masters student at MIT and I am completing a masters thesis about the unique challenges faced by women in software engineering roles, which requires your insight!For this survey I am looking specifically for participation from those who identify as women and are current software engineers, previous software engineers, and anyone who directly manages software engineers.

If you (or anyone in your network) falls into one of these categories please share or access the survey at the following link: https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a9jSJo090Wd2DvE.

I am short a handful of responses for a meaningful analysis, so any help distributing this would be monumental. If you'd like to be updated with the outputs of my thesis, please DM your email address and I will be sure to follow up!

Thank you, all!

MichelleFuentes·Dec 29, 2023

Hey Maddie! I added the 'software engineering' tag so hopefully this will help reach more engineering elphas :)

ChitraFrench·Dec 29, 2023

Hi Maddie- I started filling out your survey but was stuck on the question: Company Information as a Software Engineer (please answer these as of your most recent role where you were programming > 50% of the time).Since I managed SW engineers (and not programming at all), wasn't sure how to answer all the questions.

maddiegolison·Dec 30, 2023

Ahhh I understand! Have you gone from SWE manager to another role? In that case, I'd answer as when you were a SWE manager. Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for reaching out!

sagha·Jan 03, 2024

Similarly I'm in an architect role. I don't manage and at my level I actually rarely spend as much as 50% of my time coding, though I do read a lot of code and write and think about it. That's fairly common for staff/principal/architect level roles.

Iynna·Jan 01, 2024

Super interesting! Tagging a few of our members in these roles @zarinanugmanova @elanastroud @vivianay @truptilokhande @lovejoy @jabeen @cynthiaying @lindsaykulzer @nayme @amakaobi @mugdhajain @akanshatayal

lovejoy·Jan 09

Hi Maddie, I filled out your survey some days ago. I hope it helps :)