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
#2I 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 amazing and top talent) because they'd only not be able to comment on reasons for termination. That makes sense because disagreement with e-group and some in s-group more than once or twice is a performance issue now. Hard for them to say everyone is lying and the lived experience of everyone is wrong and they don't have a diversity problem with a straight face, so implying it's a performance issue seems fitting.
Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management
#3I 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…
Thank you for your support! That really means a lot. And for the record, performance was not given as a reason for my termination. I was told it was because I could not get along with, or work with my managers, whom I had reported concerns against.
Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management
#4I 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…
The Chief People Officer was forced out for doing her job.
Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management
#5I 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…
The Chief People Officer was forced out for doing her job.
I work at GitLab and I tend to agree. It's insane!
Re: 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
#7So the CEO and CMO are disparaging the women in the article? After they said they don't comment on personnel issues?
Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management
#8I 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…
What are they saying that is inaccurate about the article?
Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management
#9I 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…
The Chief People Officer was forced out for doing her job.
Yeah pretty much. If you don't agree with the exec team, or otherwise to improve the situation you'll get the axe.
Re: Gitlab seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management
#10I 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…
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 response does go on to point to recent blog posts and other diversity "efforts" as well as ways to anonymously send in complaints or concerns.