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I don’t still work there but checking out the page it looks like it hasn’t been updated in a while. The company is closer to 40 FTE now, and we employ people o

I don’t still work there but checking out the page it looks like it hasn’t been updated in a while. The company is closer to 40 FTE now, and we employ people of several minorities and protected groups, including LGBTQ, Hispanic, and Asian folks. The President (whom I chose as my successor) is a woman. The product owner is a gay man. The support team manager is a lesbian. The lead developer on one product is a Chinese national. There are several people on the onboarding and support team who are Hispanic. These are just people I participated in hiring. I have no reason to believe the company has changed in their commitment to diversity. When I left, the company was ~65% female, which was a conscious choice I made to try to do my part to get women more involved in tech. We went to great lengths to ensure equal pay. Feel free to ask any of my former employees how we valued diversity and I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. On a personal level, my wife is 1/2 Latina, making my child 1/4 Latino. We encourage him to learn his ancestor’s language and explore their culture. I’ve lived in South America and love their culture. In fact, we are currently in the process of moving to Costa Rica and am setting up a program with local public schools where I’ll be donating my time (and money by providing computers) to teach programming to interested children. Honestly, I find your post to be highly insulting.

ojnabieoot 6y ago
It is too bad you are insulted and there was nothing in my comment that said anything about your personal priorities. But the professional priorities of the company you founded are obvious. Both Glassdoor reviews of Gingr (by unhappy former employees) gave the company a 1/5 on diversity and inclusion, and suggested the company has a problem with people hiring and promoting their pals. I am guessing you don’t want me to “ask any of my former employees how we valued diversity” and if I did I doubt I would “be pleasantly surprised.” By the way, severe culture problems like these are something HR can help you avoid! You mention that the company is 65% women, but are they front-loaded in sales or IC position? You mention a gay product owner, but LGBT men rarely face serious employment discrimination in tech roles (let alone the Chinese developer). Nothing you present here is enough to make me change my opinion about the company (it in fact entrenches my opinion that Gingr is not at all bothered by the fact that none of their employees are black). And again: the company you founded has pictures of 23 employees and only one of them is possibly not white. Perhaps the nonwhite ones were sick on picture day, but that’s a fact. It is also a fact that Glassdoor only has bad things to say about diversity at Gingr. These facts are much more valuable and rigorous than the fact that you have Latino family members. And nonwhite job applicants notice things like this. It’s egregiously racist and unacceptable in 2021. If Gingr doesn’t want strangers to look at their company and think “wow, look at these racist-ass white jerks” then they should take diversity more seriously than their founder did.

ojnabieoot 6y ago

It is too bad you are insulted and there was nothing in my comment that said anything about your personal priorities. But the professional priorities of the company you founded are obvious. Both Glassdoor reviews of Gingr (by unhappy former employees) gave the company a 1/5 on diversity and inclusion, and suggested the company has a problem with people hiring and promoting their pals. I am guessing you don’t want me to “ask any of my former employees how we valued diversity” and if I did I doubt I would “be pleasantly surprised.” By the way, severe culture problems like these are something HR can help you avoid! You mention that the company is 65% women, but are they front-loaded in sales or IC position? You mention a gay product owner, but LGBT men rarely face serious employment discrimination in tech roles (let alone the Chinese developer). Nothing you present here is enough to make me change my opinion about the company (it in fact entrenches my opinion that Gingr is not at all bothered by the fact that none of their employees are black). And again: the company you founded has pictures of 23 employees and only one of them is possibly not white. Perhaps the nonwhite ones were sick on picture day, but that’s a fact. It is also a fact that Glassdoor only has bad things to say about diversity at Gingr. These facts are much more valuable and rigorous than the fact that you have Latino family members. And nonwhite job applicants notice things like this. It’s egregiously racist and unacceptable in 2021. If Gingr doesn’t want strangers to look at their company and think “wow, look at these racist-ass white jerks” then they should take diversity more seriously than their founder did.