Pinterest's Head of Inclusion and Diversity Candice Morgan is working to solve Silicon Valley's diversity problem.
Despite its efforts, Silicon Valley still has a major issue with diversity. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, more than, those jarring statistics not only impacts workplace dynamics and culture but can shift the thought process surrounding a companies’ product and overall purpose. In July of 2016, Pinterest announced specific goals and programs to improve and enhance inclusiveness at the company.
Fluker: Share your career journey. What about Diversity and Inclusion within the technology space interests you?Before I joined Pinterest, I spent about a decade at Catalyst, the leading consultancy and nonprofit for women in business. I worked with companies in a range of industries from finance to construction, technology, and consumer goods on change management and organizational transformation.
Overall, we’re a service where we want people to discover what works best for their taste and style. For example, our approach with shopping is to help people go from a spark of inspiration and then see recommendations and drill down to what works best for their body, taste and price point, and not just impulse buy what they may see an influencer wearing.
Another program I’m proud of is Pinterest Apprenticeship, where candidates from non-traditional tech backgrounds can experience engineering at Pinterest with the opportunity to become a full-time employee. This means apprentices don't have a traditional computer science degree, but they do have skills they've honed at a coding boot camp, for example. The vast majority of apprentices have converted to full-time engineers, some for as long as three+ years.
A couple of years ago, I had heard from a young Pinner who loved using Pinterest but wasn’t seeing content that was most relevant to her. As a Pinner and woman of color myself, I was also customizing my searches to get relevant results and knew we needed to do something about this. In response to this and feedback like it, my team worked with the technical teams to roll out skin tone ranges for more inclusive beauty searches for everyone.
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