Women Computer Scientists – Yes They Exist!

Published earlier today in the Huffington Post Women are doing some amazing work in Computer Science and Engineering, how come we don't know about them? We all know about the stereotypical hot start-up out of Silicon Valley led by some twenty-something white guy but we don't hear much about women entrepreneurs, computer scientists, researchers and business leaders in tech. How come? Is it like the research study recently reported in the New York Times where a scientifically oriented resume with a women's name at the top was consistently rated lower [...]

By |2017-12-06T16:53:20-08:00October 4, 2012|Equality|0 Comments

Employee Ranking is an Innovation Killer in Tech

You've been in that meeting. HR's leading the annual performance review process and you're being asked to rank your team members with their peers. In larger companies you're probably being asked to force your team into a bell curve of the top 20%, middle 60% and bottom 20%, or your HR person is talking about "the lifeboat test" (what order would you throw your employees out of the boat), or if you work for Intel maybe you're being asked to do a literal forced ranking. It's a tried and tested [...]

By |2017-12-06T16:56:42-08:00July 11, 2012|Career Advice|0 Comments
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