Рубрика: GHC15

I was drawn to the GHC15 session «It’s Not Just the Pipeline: Why Fixing the Culture is Essential» after experiencing oh-so-much in my first three years as an industry professional.  Making it through a Computer Science major in college wasn’t exa…

Intel hired a data scientist who is working on the hiring process. She has looked into the retention, new hires and diversity and developed a prediction model that given current representation, how many to hire, promote to reach the target goal. She wants to borrow ideas from economic forecasting and computational biology to build comprehensive […]

Overall thoughts on the presentation: Anu’s presentation is relevant to all teams working in data space and building products with a data driven focus. I looked her idea of having candidates interviewed by members from diverse backgrounds and cross roles. Her idea of pods is also interesting and coupled with cross pollination, it paves the […]

Hadi Partovi, CEO and Cofounder at code.org.Hadi immigrated here after the Islamic Revolution in Iran. He learned to code on a Commodore 64, a gift from his dad.  But now he’s looking at kids in high school in the US that do not have access to com…