Awful advice. Attractiveness doesn’t matter for women, you can sign up as a female without a picture at all and you’ll still get more matches than an average man. And women don’t care what you do for a living unless it’s something flashy like a rapper. I’m a software engineer and I get rejected by women working at Chick Fil A.
Many swiping on women are bots or males that swipe on everyone. A bit of an illusion. On the other hand, women do have an easier time. For example, even on OkCupid from back in the day women had a higher response rate when sending the first message (compared to men sending the first message).
The thing most beneficial for women online (in addition to being prey rather than predator) is the gender skew. There are usually 2x as many males compared to females, leaving the top 50% of women (the ones seen as viable) gobbled up by the top 25% of males. With a bit of a skew in the swipe ratio, the top 20% of males (ones the top 80% of women are chasing) are enough to take all viable/acceptable women.
However, what is interesting, and what they talk about in the link above, a highly attractive women (good pics), will get 10-20x the interest than just an “okay” looking woman.
To your point on software engineer... no woman really cares too much... (unfortunately). There are dozens of software engineers already expressing interest in her, the question that you need to answer for her is “What makes you special?” Can you make her laugh? Do you and her share common interests, etc. Anyway, not a professional here... all of this is based on my observations and “intense learning” over the last 3 months of being single again.
