I may be a prude, but in my 30 years in the software industry in Seattle, I never saw any of this.
Okay, at one company, I knew of two women who were sleeping around. But that’s all, ever. Pretty low incidence, I’d say.
Well, except for the Gay Company. “The Boys” had their weekends on the boat.
The Atari documentary did show that once hired these guys ended up working so many hours to code to deadline, they had little time for sex.
But the recruiting process was apparently PARTY PARTY PARTY!
“I may be a prude, but in my 30 years in the software industry in Seattle, I never saw any of this.”
I went to a tech convention in Las Vegas about 20 years ago. MCI rented Liberace’s mansion and stocked it with all the food and booze you could consume, and most of the high-end whores in Vegas.
Easily 200 of them.
The old MCI knew how to buy business. And it worked very well for them.
You are NOT a prude.
I was in Silicon Valley for 25 years and only saw it once among 8 people in a party of 50.