Breaking news: Puppies riding reindeer sighted downtown! Also, and, and, and, um, ice cream!

The other side of this is that the bad job market allows assholes to single out the productive workers while watching each others backs, compared to a hot job market where shennanigans get nipped in the bud.  Now the rumor mongers are elevated to head executioner, and they will have a posse of jackass buddies.

I know a young woman who developed games. She went to start her own company and got shot down by every investor. Despite having actual code and graphics ready (while meanwhile young men with vaporware and attitude would land it no problem). She ended up teaming up with a guy, changed the name of her company and got funded within the month.

I know that’s anecdotal, and I suppose it could have all just been due to time or several other factors. But… I’ll be honest… I kind of doubt it. I’ve seen how guys (especially young guys) act about this stuff. It’s almost never an intentional thing. It really isn’t. But what it is, is a complete and utter unawareness of how their words or action can effect those who don’t have the same advantages as them. Put simply, a lot of these guys are seriously self-centered and egotistical.

So, even though I don’t think the “brogrammers” caricatured in the Quora Q&A actually exist in any significant numbers, I think the term “brogrammers” to refer to these guys who can’t see outside of their own bubble is perfect. I mean… it’s that or “idiot douche bags.”

But remember kids… There is no “pro” in “brogrammer.”

I guess my sense is that behind all these stories is a desperate desire on the part of the journalists to tsk tsk disapprovingly at all those naughty (yet so interesting) boys…and to not have to talk about geek culture anymore (which they truly loathe).

I’m sure there are some, I just watched a documentary about a now-belly-up startup from my country that seemed to have some of that attitude… but I have personally not run into one and I doubt the companies I’ve worked for would tolerate anything like that. I really don’t think it’s a common thing.

I do agree on the ego… but I think that kind of comes with the trade. :)

I’ve certainly never seen anything remotely like it in the UK, but maybe someone could shed some international light on it?

I’ve been told (though I don’t know if this is true), that Facebook has a particular problem with this culture.

From your headline, Brogrammers work “while receiving oral sex.” This is apparently just from one of the random answers on quora that said they “can work well under the tightest deadlines, or while receiving oral sex.”

Um, isn’t this just an obvious joke about the dumb movie Swordfish?