Hack.Diversity transforms the tech industry by codesigning intercultural leadership, talent acquisition criteria, and system processes for employers to invest in early-career engineers who will become the next generation of leaders in tech.
In 2024, 27 companies — 71% recommitments — did the work to invest in their talent pipeline, build leadership qualities, and foster a culture of belonging.
Talent Matching
of Fellows were matched into software engineering, data analytics, or mechanical engineering internships
Untapped
Talent
of Fellows who matched with Host Companies for internships would have been filtered out in application or technical interview rounds without Hack
Leadership Development
Host Company managers, decision-makers, and executives participated in our Inclusive Management Sessions and Hard Problems Summit to build intercultural people management practices
CarGurus: Collaborative Accountability
This year, we invited Host Companies to engage with our program through a tangible project. CarGurus applied Hack.Diversity’s resources to build early career training for their employees. The soon-to-launch training is designed to have a wide-reaching impact across the organization, thoughtfully prioritizing employee experiences and learning opportunities.
A recent Fellow shared their experience at CarGurus:
“I felt visible and valued, as I was contributing directly to projects that involved collaboration with multiple team members. This shift not only broadened my skill set but also gave me a sense of belonging and purpose within the organization. The contrast between working on an isolated project and being part of team efforts highlighted the importance of collaborative work environments in fostering both professional growth and job satisfaction.”
Upon receiving this feedback, CarGurus is encouraged that this early career training will foster even more impactful experiences for future fellows and interns.
WHOOP: Shaping AI Inclusivity
GenerativeAI is rapidly transforming the way engineering teams work. There's no question that its growth will change the world and how we solve and manage problems. The real question is: what are the short-term impacts on early-career engineers entering the market?
As an early practitioner of integrating and building GenAI into its products, WHOOP has built an engineering team at the forefront of this curve, setting a benchmark for the rest of the industry. And with that great power comes great responsibility — WHOOP engineers chose to share that critical knowledge with Hack.Diversity Fellows.
At a time when companies are deepening their team rosters of senior contributors, WHOOP recognized one of AI’s current limitations — the missing contributions from underrepresented communities — and saw an opportunity: what if we intentionally invite underrepresented talent into AI from the beginning?
In 2024, their inaugural year of Hack.Diversity partnership, WHOOP hosted two Fellows to gain hands-on experience in this GenAI experience. In action true to Hack’s mission, WHOOP engineers also invited a Cohort-wide session on the implications of GenAI and how to prepare for its changes.
“I want Fellows to go into the industry knowing things about GenAI that nobody else knows, the kind of stuff where they'll join a company and show someone one of these techniques and have the senior engineer go: ’Wait, what, you can do that? That's possible?’"
– Justin Coon, Staff Software Engineer @ WHOOP
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