Top Five Dos and Don’ts When Employing Interns

Like most Silicon Valley technology companies, we hire interns at FirstRain. Sometimes they are active graduate students looking for work experience and interesting problems to solve while finishing their doctorate, sometimes they are in the final few months of a bachelors and want to try on a job to see if they enjoy it, and sometimes they are full time students working for the Summer. In all cases having them in our company is a huge win for us. So far every one has been an energy source, working hard [...]

By |2017-12-06T09:53:38-08:00May 29, 2013|Career Advice, Leadership|0 Comments

Why women need sponsors more than mentors

I was on a panel at GHC 2012 last week "Sponsors or Mentors - which will get you there?" Standing room only in a large room, it was clearly a topic of great interest to the female tech students and geeks at the conference. And the questions were priceless... The panel, lead by Anne Losby of Thomson Reuters,  was prompted by a report Catalyst put out last year on Sponsoring Women to Success. In it the research clearly shows sponsorship is a powerful differentiator at the top and key to [...]

By |2017-12-06T16:53:15-08:00October 11, 2012|Equality|1 Comment

My life is not a sausage factory

Yes high tech is still dominated by men - but it doesn't have to be. In Kara Swisher's hilarious keynote speech at the Women of Vision dinner last week she said "my life is a sausage factory" referring to the predominance of men in the high tech industry. Kara reigns supreme in the world of tech journalism so she's talking with men, and writing about men, most of the time. She's a kick - outspoken, whip smart and fearless - had me in stitches. She's right though. There is an [...]

By |2017-12-06T16:57:53-08:00May 14, 2012|Equality|0 Comments
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