Cindy Chu - Growing your engineering team with diversity in mind

Highlights of my conversation with Cindy:

• Starting as the only female engineering hire in a startup
• Bring up diversity hiring plans before you are hired
• Transparency is at the center of inclusivity
• Putting women on interview panels is important, but making sure it’s not just a check box
• Be careful not to reward the wrong traits
• Advice for female engineers looking to move into management
• Ask for the opportunity; don’t wait for it
• Educational opportunities to move into STEM

Meet: With over a decade of experience developing consumer web products, Cindy currently leads the engineering team at imgix. Previously, Cindy led the web and mobile engineering teams at Polyvore, which was acquired in 2015. She has a degree in computer science from Stanford.

If you have any questions for Cindy, please feel free to reach out via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindywangchu/

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