@SiteRelEnby@tech.lgbtLiterally a worse positive (i.e. interview offer) response rate than I had as a new grad right as the great recession was starting to seriously hit, and I've been applying for lower level jobs than my old one too.
Have a disabled, also-queer partner who I'm doing this for too. Slightly less broken people caring for broken people - I need some schedule flexibility and excellent health insurance, but in return I'm willing to work weird hours and she understands the importance and I'm willing to take the shitty oncall shift, etc, if needed. Will make your engineering team at least 600% cuter and have random insights out of nowhere between being funny, and be a loud voice of the underrepresented within the engineering org and the company as a whole.
Will automate everything, and I mean everything. Have both said "I could replace you with a shell script" and actually done it. Recently broke through the wall and became reasonable at writing, and learned how to update the team docs.