Diversity & Culture

A Atlassian Boosted Its Female Technical Hires By 80% — Here’s How | First Round Review

As a diversity and inclusion leader, Aubrey Blanche is all about experiments backed up by research and data. Here, she shares what's worked and what hasn't at Atlassian.

T The Three Secrets to Executive Recruiting I Learned at Apple, Yahoo and More | First Round Review

Jennifer Rettig brings her recruiting expertise from Target, Apple, Yahoo, and — most recently — Looker, to share the tactics that will find your company the best executives.

O On Improving Diversity in Hiring – Accidentally in Code

Caveat: Diversity is more than gender. I’ve used gender in some of these examples because I have enough anecdotal data to support these theories wrt to gender but I don’t want to extrap…

T The Mental Scorecard I Use To Determine How Bro is Your Startup — Cynthia Balusek

Your website The Job Description uses the words rockstar:    -1 point ninja:    -1 point Sports reference:  -1 point Cursing:  -1   The job application Asks me to write something interesting about myself:  -3 Asks me to rank objects such as Batman, glitter, and Budweiser*:  -20 Asks my pronoun:  +10

H How to Keep Perceived Bias from Holding Back High-Potential Employees

When talented people from diverse backgrounds fail to rise in a company, there are three powerful solutions: having more inclusive team leaders, more diversity among the top leadership, and better sponsorship practices.

W We Asked 615 Men About How They Conduct Themselves at Work - The New York Times

Though many women have recently come forward with accounts of unwelcome sexual conduct in the workplace, it has been unclear how widespread the problem is, and how severe. A new poll offers some answers.

N Nicole Sanchez on Twitter: "Companies, asking for advice: "How can we tell if our diversity and inclusion programs are w

“Companies, asking for advice: "How can we tell if our diversity and inclusion programs are working?" Me, an expert: "Find out how Black women are experiencing your company." Company: "Oh so survey women of color?" 1/?”

P Performance review gender bias: High-achieving women are 'abrasive' | Fortune

Men are given constructive suggestions. Women are given constructive suggestions—and told to pipe down.

O Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity - Careers of a Different Color - HBS

9/4/2001 How do the career paths of black and white businesswomen differ? In Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity, management professors Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell and Stella M. Nkomo attempt to understand the experiences of black and white women as they climb the corporate ladder. The work is based on an eight-year research project that inclu...

T Ten Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role

I recently went on a search for a new full time gig and I learned that today’s job search is not what it used to be. Here’s the quick summary of what I lear...