This is Power of Networks, interviews featuring real-world career advice from leaders at the top of their games. Software engineer Leslie Miley made waves when he left Twitter citing frustration over the company’s unwillingness to become more diverse and inclusive. Today Leslie is the Director of...
That's according to Leslie Miley, Slack's head of engineering, who addressed a crowd at the Tech Inclusion conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. He called Facebook's efforts to improve diversity "insulting." Hundreds of people assembled to listen and provide solutions for changing a technology culture...
Three Stanford undergraduates are preparing to launch a podcast on Nov. 20 that chronicles the nuances and idiosyncrasies of their experiences as black women in the tech industry. What began as shared experiences via text messages while working at companies such as Apple, Lyft and...
Kimberly Bryant worked in medicine and technology for more than two decades and observed so little advancement in diversity that in 2011, she launched Black Girls Code, a nonprofit organization committed to educating girls of color within STEM fields. Bryant’s work with BGC has already...
A startup in Silicon Valley is challenging conventional hiring practices in the white, male-dominated world of tech by giving coders a platform to be tested on their raw talent. San Francisco-based CodeFights offers a gamified coding platform for job-seeking programmers to reach recruiters by performing well—but...
It’s not much of a secret that women are underrepresented in the tech industry — its lack of diversity has become notorious over the years. According to the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), women represented a mere 15% of computer science bachelor’s...