Thank you for the genius solving on this! Halt and Catch Fire is the name and I am going to binge watch it today.
I just watched a clip on a LinkedIn reel and my screen refreshed unfortunately. 90s movie, scene where an “edgy” blonde woman with short funky hair and out-of-place clothes stands in front of a room of ~20 stereotypical IT/programmers. She’s standing with her boss and she asks who stayed late playing a specific game, who beat certain levels, then who used cheat codes — whittles it down to 3 guys, tells her boss the ones who use the cheat codes are the ones she wants on her team because they know how to program and get around obstacles.. The 3 guys have weird short nicknames. I initially really thought the actress was Colby Smulders from how I Met your mother, but I don’t think it’s her.