Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner

This is an outsider looking in guide to what it is like to work in the tech world. The thing that I kept thinking the whole time that I read this is that it is exactly what I thought it would be like, there is nothing that stands out or is shocking. In some ways there is a lot less misogyny and harassment than I would have guessed, but otherwise it is unsurprising. Maybe that is because in many ways it is like the way everything worked a generation ago. Yes, tech is infused with a 90/10 male to female ration, and when a start up manages to have 20% women they stand out, but that was what you would have found in any work place in the 1970's. Yes, the women are doing the customer interface and the men are doing the programming, but again, that is pretty parallel to days gone by as well. The fact that this work didn't exist fifty years ago is notable, but there are jobs from then that no longer exist now. This memoir really shows that the more things change, often they also stay exactly the same.