Pros
Lesbians Who Tech (and Tech Jobs Tour) do needed work in the tech industry to boost diversity recruitment.
Cons
Highly dysfunctional leadership and management, lack of organizational structure, lack of HR and/or internal review processes, highly problematic boundary issues between leadership and staff, overall tone of mistrust from leadership, high value on results over people (at whatever cost). Inappropriate "carrot dangling" to motivate higher productivity, without follow-through (ex: if you can just give us 120% these next two weeks, we think you have a lot of potential and will move up). Extremely high turn-over (longest lasting program staff member - 1 year). Leadership/CEO talks negatively about former employees to current staff. I came to Lesbians Who Tech (LWT) after being recruited out of a large Fortune 500 tech company - for as hard as I was chased, I had high hopes, especially as a queer-identified person. I was deeply (and quickly) disappointed by my experience with LWT, and made the decision to resign because of general mistreatment and hostile management. Bottom line: If you want to be treated with respect, do not work here. If you want to be mentored and/or are looking for managers to help you develop professionally, do not work here. If you want to be home more than you are traveling, do not work here. If you have a personal life that you actually care about, do not work here. If you want to be paid a reasonable salary for working 60+ hours/week, do not work here.
