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Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers

posted by on Tuesday December 27 2016, @05:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-judge-a-book-by-its-cover dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Disabled engineers make great contributors—if they can get past the interview

[...] People with disabilities are under represented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) jobs compared with their numbers in the overall population, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau. But those who succeed share qualities of acceptance, tenacity, and resilience. By necessity, these engineers and coders have well-honed problem-solving skills.

There are three examples quoted in the article. I am sure some of you have had similar experiences. What are your views on this?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Snotnose on Tuesday December 27 2016, @02:49PM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @02:49PM (#446351)

    He was legally blind. This was mid-90s, we ran Linux. He had his font so large I could read it from across the room, and he used a magnifying glass to read it.

    Know what? He wrote some damned fine code. Not only that, you could ask him something and he had the entire code base memorized. He also had the relevant parts of the Linux kernel memorized. This was when Linux was young and it wasn't unusual to find bugs in device drivers.

    Wonder what ever happened to him?

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @04:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @04:29PM (#446371)

    Yes, I DO wonder what ever happened to him...

    Why don't you fill us in?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 28 2016, @04:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 28 2016, @04:12AM (#446550)

    Leonard Euler, arguably one of the top four mathematicians who ever lived (you can guess who the other three are), was completely blind in one eye for most of his adult life, and blind in both eyes for the last two decades. It didn't seem to slow him down at all. The man was a machine at churning out brilliant mathematics.