DOOM: Blizzard

[lorakeen]

Without wanting to stereotype anyone, I can well imagine many of the kind of borderline Asberger uber-nerds drawn to game programming would be the types to behave like that! Also, perhaps over time the gung ho game play itself rubs off on them.

now give those guys a fandom.

[OwlHoot]

now give those guys a fandom.

and some share options for the early birds, yes, that would go to their heads big time!

[d000hg]

Without wanting to stereotype anyone, I can well imagine many of the kind of borderline Asberger uber-nerds drawn to game programming would be the types to behave like that! Also, perhaps over time the gung ho game play itself rubs off on them.

I mean, firstly we could make that claim about all programmers. But if we're going to go down that route, I've never seen women getting much abuse from that sort of total nerd. They might be caught sniffing the saddle of the ladies' exercise bike but they wouldn't dare intimidate them, that's the more laddish managers' role. Until they go on a shooting spree, this sort of uber-nerd is not a problem to anyone, except those with sensitive noses.

The other thing to point out, having been in that environment, is that women are pretty rare. The coders are all guys, a few ladies in HR and they stay quite separate. In the places I've worked as an employed developer, I am aware of precisely one female developer. 3 smaller companies I worked at, there was one woman in total and she was on the phone!