EmpowerUs
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 · on Wednesday, 2021-10-13· at 16:15· JW Marriott L.A. Live | Platinum Ballroom D+E + On Demand·
summary
Panelists argue concrete tactics for influence and combating imposter syndrome: cite Stack Overflow numbers (developers who are women ~5% globally, ~9% in the US), lean on domain experts instead of trying to know everything about Prometheus and Alertmanager, and treat Chronosphere as an observability use case. Recommended actions include mentorship, calling out interruptions, using anonymous surveys to surface bias, and promoting colleagues publicly. Specific behaviors: credit people by name, build an ally brigade, rotate tasks across team to stop unfair expectations.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 3:25Sophia Vargas
- 6:35What Have You Found To Be the Biggest Obstacles to Exerting Influence and the Organizations You'Ve Worked in and How Did You Deal with Them
- 10:12Imposter Syndrome
- 18:50Concrete Ways That You Can Support Someone Else and Like To Promote Their Ideas
- 23:39If So How Do You Decide When To Call that Out and What Do You Do in Such Situations
- 42:05How To Find Support in Other Women in a Fully Remote Job
- 50:41How Do You Know What Type of Support To Ask for
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