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Ola Sitarska

Ola Sitarska is VP of Engineering at Verve where she empowers teams to create high performing, diverse and compassionate environment.

Ola Sitarska is VP of Engineering at Verve where she empowers teams to create high performing, diverse and compassionate environment. Before joining Verve, Ola co-founded Django Girls, a global non-profit teaching basics of web development to 17000 women in 4 years.

The ultimate candidate experience: the effect of an inclusive hiring process

In my role as a VP of Engineering at a fast-growing startup, I spent hundreds of hours interviewing and sourcing candidates in the last year alone. The bar we set ourselves was high: not just hire people with excellent skills and culture add, but also maintain and improve our current diversity (33% women, 9% people of color) across experience levels.

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