Slack, the fast-growing business messaging service, is making progress in solving Silicon Valley’s diversity problem where larger firms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google are struggling. The company is using blind testing to recruit engineers from diverse backgrounds. It scores candidates on tests without requiring them...
Like many tech companies, Twitter’s TWTR 1.08% track record on diversity isn’t great. Only 34% of its employees are women; only 13% of its employees in tech roles are. Underrepresented minorities make up just 10% of the overall staff and 7% of the company’s tech roles. But...
In 2012, California voters approved Proposition 36, which led to the amendment of the three strikes provision of the 1994 crime bill. Two main changes made to the law were that the third strike needed to be a serious or violent felony and that those...
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) — We’ve all seen the numbers. Mississippi has some of the highest diabetes rates in America. A diagnosis can be devastating. Sometimes patients eventually have to have their feet removed. A team of aspiring engineers at Jackson State is working to prevent...
Women and minorities are historically underrepresented in the tech industry and companies often struggle to fix the diversity issue. Now one Seattle startup wants to help remove any unconscious bias that may influence a hiring decision. TalentSonar‘s software removes names, contact information, and other identifying features...
SAN FRANCISCO — Laura Weidman Powers, who has built CODE2040 into a major force for diversifying the technology industry, is taking her advocacy to the White House with her appointment as a senior policy adviser to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith. For six months Powers...