Engineering Career Series: Fostering inclusion & belonging within Yelp Engineering
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Ian Fijolek Director, Productivity Engineering, Tenzin Kunsal, Senior Events & Partnerships Specialist and Trisha Walsh, VP, Information Technology
- Jul 29, 2021
Recruiting, hiring, and onboarding new employees in Engineering at Yelp is a multi-team, cross-functional effort as we have laid out in our Career Series blog posts. But once people are here, how do we retain them? While career advancement, technical leadership, and pay equity are all important components to building a happy engineering team, we believe fostering inclusion and belonging is also a fundamental component in supporting, and thus retaining, people. While this is an area that’s received a lot of recent attention in the tech industry, we’ve prioritized inclusion and belonging for many years because we want all of...