The company’s hiring goals are not exactly ambitious when compared against its existing diversity numbers.
Last month, Pinterest came forward with its proposed plan to increase diversity in 2016. Twitter matched Pinterest’s effort on Friday, when it announced its own goals to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities at the company.
The best things on the Internet this week, curated by Fast Company employees.
Name: Zacqary Adam Xeper
Role at Fast Company: I’m a web developer, specializing in front-end—that means the stuff that happens on your device, as opposed to the stuff that happens on our servers. I make things look pretty for you. Ever looked at one of our slideshows on your phone? Aren’t those spinning 3-D cards cool? You’re welcome.
Twitter: @XerxesQados
Titillating Fact: In my spare time, I am a purple fox named Xerxes. If you’re in downtown Pittsburgh on that one weekend in late June/early July when the streets are overrun by people wearing full-body mascot-style animal suits, I’ll probably be one of them. Yes, I’ll be overheating; that’s what happens when you go outside in the middle of summer wearing a couch. But I do it anyway.
With a new Apple media streamer reportedly weeks away, we asked app makers what’s worked for competing platforms like Roku and Chromecast.
Apple has a lot of catching up to do if it’s going to launch a new Apple TV in September.
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