they’ll do it in a heartbeat.
i hope they get blackballed.

They are lowering their chances at many firms. I'd bet we will be better off from this.

Pretty grim with all the layoffs. I’m sure if I was a male fresh out of school with a Masters in Comp Sci I would be doing to same as these young guys. It’s fucking hard in tech for everyone now!

I wouldn't chose the person who cheats and lies to get ahead. That is the male way. It's sickening as far as I'm concerned. The rest of us work our asses off, have to be twice as good as you and then you lie and cheat your way in. Find a new career field.

Once the recruiters do their job and forward us the best candidates from each event it all goes into a big database to use for when new positions open up. To be honest we aren’t even hiring candidates until may March April next year. We wouldn’t know if a resume came from this event or from a usual Duke University event. We could give a flying fuck where the most desirable candidates resumes come from.

the way of the world.

The men clogged up the lines and rushed the events.

So the 'best candidates' were culled primarily from the men - while the rest (women and non-binary applicants) didn't get a chance - even at an event designed for them to get in front of recruiters.

Your argument shows very poor logic. Maybe you don't care where the resumes come from - that's not the point. Those the event was designed to afford opportunity to apply were blocked out because males lied on their registrations and systematically rushed events and clogged lines to recruiters. You don't get the resumes until AFTER all that.

Talk about missing the point.

Either submitting resume through direct to our website or attending one of these many many many events we attend. No one at our company has gotten an upper hand at a chance to interview by simply attending any of many recruiting events we hold per year. These events are nothing more than resume getters. As a female in the Valley I hate how the system works as well. I was told that the hiring for next year at our NC campus will be predominantly new DUKE grads anyways. The corporate world is fucked up.

specifically for women and non binary and in order to attend the event, the cis men stated they were not. That's lying and cheating.

Men crashing (yes, I said "crashing," because they were clearly not invited) an event that is specifically not for them, some even misrepresenting their gender identity on their registrations? If that's not lying and cheating, I don't know what is.

I'm sorry to hear about all these layoffs in the tech industry. I know what it's like to get laid off, believe me. I got caught up in the big economic crash of 2008, when people in almost every industry were getting laid off right and left. Being involuntarily unemployed sucks. But that does not even almost excuse what these men did. The sense of entitlement they displayed was off the charts, and their behavior is indefensible as far as I'm concerned.