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There was a project that required traveling, and my boss assumed that I wouldn't be able to take it due to my gender.
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Akanksha Gupta is an experienced Software Engineering Manager at Amazon. She has worked with tech giants like Robinhood, Audible(Amazon subsidiary) and Microsoft. Gupta: "I have always been apprehensive about social engineering, particularly due to its potential to cause harm, particularly to ordinary people"