<i>There are hiring managers out there who won&#x27;t hire a female developer because they&#x27;re just outright sexist.</i><p>Do these people actually really exist in 2015, and are there organisations that would allow them to behave like that?  I&#x27;ve known quite a few hiring managers, and some of them have definitely made stupid comments about &quot;how nice it&#x27;d be to have a hot girl on the team&quot; (though equally they might also make stupid comments about hiring graduates - of either gender - to make cups of tea), but none of them, to my knowledge, would ever have not picked a female candidate who was technically up to the task purely because she was a woman.<p>Have I just led a sheltered existence?<p>(I guess I&#x27;m talking here about SMEs and larger companies; I suppose if you&#x27;re a tiny company run by a couple of sexist pigs, then any kind of behaviour is allowed to stand.)