Stanford, Harvard, or Yale???

thehaakun
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 06:15:17 +0000

@florida26 I’m pretty sure that if the entire Silicon Valley had no concept of a work-life balance then there wouldn’t be a Silicon Valley in the first place. And most of the software engineers I’ve spoken to seem to have a pretty good balance between life and work, or else they wouldn’t be working at that place anyway.

And yes, Stanford’s Lea Coligado has even pointed out the blatant sexism she’s experienced (look at her Facebook page, Women of Silicon Valley) but that’s just one of the reasons to join the CS field; to change it, to make it better. I’m a female CS major and I’m determined to make the tech industry more friendly for minorities. WiCS is a common group of campus that advocates for women in CS, and there’s groups on campus that focus on engineers in minority groups. A majority of section leaders I know for one of the most popular CS classes here are actually women.

It seems like you’re saying…Don’t go to Stanford because Silicon Valley has people working insane hours?