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Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management

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Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management

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What are they saying that is inaccurate about the article?

They aren't telling us anything because of "privacy" concerns. Here is what the official response from Sid was: "There was an article published in The Register today regarding the recent departures of female leaders from our company. There were multiple inaccuracies in the article. Because we value the privacy of our current and former employees, we do not discuss personnel issues publicly." EDIT: the official respon…

People only file complaints if they feel safe to do so and the complaints are handled appropriately.

A way to lead on transparency might be to share number of investigations, internal and external, and what the findings were. There are ways to share findings without revealing names. Additionally, a company can benefit from transparent remediation discussions, which are very important.

Transparency is easy when it comes to being transparent about things you want to get out into the world. The old humble brag approach to transparency, if you will. But, values are only values if they are upheld when it's hard.

I'm not aware of any laws that require investigation findings to be private. However, ignoring material risks has huge penalties. This isn't legal advice, but willfully violating laws, in the US, is oftentimes the basis for treble damages,

Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management

#12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They aren't telling us anything because of "privacy" concerns. Here is what the official response from Sid was: "There was an article published in The Register today regarding the recent departures of female leaders from our company. There were multiple inaccuracies in the article. Because we value the privacy of our current and former employees, we do not discuss personnel issues publicly." EDIT: the official respon…

People only file complaints if they feel safe to do so and the complaints are handled appropriately. A way to lead on transparency might be to share number of investigations, internal and external, and what the findings were. There are ways to share findings without revealing names. Additionally, a company can benefit from transparent remediation discussions, which are very important. Transparency is easy when it com…

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Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management

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I work at GitLab. Article sums it up. All of it seems right to me. There's also internal pushback and criticism on the diversity blog post. I guess the plus side is if you're a man and agree with everything the e-group says you'll go pretty far. CEO and CMO keep saying there are inaccuracies in the story to discredit core concerns. Seems like they're positioning it as performance issues (it wasn't, they were all amaz…

hmmmm... Men discrediting women...

Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management

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From the comments in the article:

Hysterical post: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/ So it's everyone else's responsibility to speak up to the CEO (!) to help improve his flaws? This "Readme" seems like psychological manipulation of the masses and at the highest level.

Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management

#15

From the comments in the article: Hysterical post: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/ So it's everyone else's responsibility to speak up to the CEO (!) to help improve his flaws? This "Readme" seems like psychological manipulation of the masses and at the highest level.

Ask Jamie about speaking up to Sid and the board.

Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management

#16

From the comments in the article: Hysterical post: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/ So it's everyone else's responsibility to speak up to the CEO (!) to help improve his flaws? This "Readme" seems like psychological manipulation of the masses and at the highest level.

Ask Jamie about speaking up to Sid and the board.

Ask all the women mentioned.

Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management

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So the CEO and CMO are disparaging the women in the article? After they said they don't comment on personnel issues?

Also the CLO whose actions imply they were fired for performance.

actions?

Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management

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post #19

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actions?

She told people about a "legal process".

A”legal process”? What does that even mean? What did she say and who did she tell?

I still am having current GitLab employees reaching out to me, ones I never even met before, sharing their stories about how they are afraid to make reports, asking me about the legitimacy of the Lighthouse reporting tool, asking if it is truly anonymous and who reviews the reports. I guess the must be really pushing use of that tool now based on the number of questions I have gotten about it.

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