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Four and a half years before the Community
After graduation, Sara worked a minimum wage internship at a startup that folded shortly after she left and then a six-month quality assurance contract at a tech giant, both of which were tedious and frustrating adventures in being underestimated and navigating bureaucracy. So when she got the offer for a software engineer position at One, a well-funded startup, she was very excited.
One had a dozen employees and she was the first female engineer, but there were a couple women on the business side, so she wasn’t entirely alone. They were just starting to scale, rolling out into new markets beyond Silicon Valley and supporting products besides the few things they’d started with—expanding from the potato chips and paper clips of their slogan t
