Blendoor
| Website | http://www.blendoor.com/ |
| Executive Team | Stephanie Lampkin |
| Employees | 1-10 |
| Capital | 165,000 |
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
| Founded | 2014 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/6404331 | |
| https://www.facebook.com/blendoorapp | |
| https://twitter.com/blendoor |
Blendoor is a mobile job matching app that hides candidate name and photo to circumvent unconscious bias & facilitate diversity recruiting.
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FortuneThis Entrepreneur Is Ranking Tech Companies on Diversity
Fortune
But a new report out Friday weighs companies' recruitment, retention, leadership, and social impact to create a more comprehensive picture—and scored ranking—of tech's diversity. HP tops the list compiled by startup Blendoor with a score of 87. That ...and more »
The Daily DotCan this 'blind' hiring app help solve Silicon Valley's diversity issue?
The Daily Dot
The lack of diversity in the tech sector is what inspired Lampkin to create Blendoor, a blind recruiting app that anonymizes user profiles to eliminate bias from the hiring process. Lampkin, 32, came up with the idea for Blendoor after her own ...and more »
NationSwell6 Ways Every Boss Can Bring Diversity to the Workplace
NationSwell
Gapjumpers and Blendoor are two companies whose software removes a candidate's name and any data not relevant to the job descriptions so managers can base hiring decisions solely on merit. The Google Chrome extension Unbias also blurs out ...and more »
KQEDWill a Code of Conduct Stamp Out Sexual Harassment in Tech?
KQED
Her company, Blendoor, tries to reduce discrimination in hiring by hiding data like a job candidate's gender or race and instead highlighting a person's experience and education. Like a lot of women in tech, Lampkin believes a “pledge” is meaningless ...and more »
ForbesMoving the Needle on Diversity in Tech: What More Needs To Be Done
Forbes
In this interview, Lampkin, founder and CEO of Blendoor, a job-matching app that reduces bias in the hiring process, discusses why diversity numbers are not moving, and what her company is doing to help solve the problem. There's been a big push in ...and more » - Blendoor App Breaks Down Computer Bias In Hiring
NPR
NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Stephanie Lampkin, founder and CEO of Blendoor, an app that tries to counteract bias in the job application process, about the potential for bias in interpreting big data and what can be done about it. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:.and more »
Huffington PostStephanie Lampkin Launches Blendoor to Diversify Tech
Huffington Post
After earning an engineering degree from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan, Stephanie founded Blendoor in the Fall of 2014. Blendoor's mobile application helps tech companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, and Microsoft recruit diverse candidates in ...and more »
ForbesBlack Woman Engineer Launches 'Blind' Job Match App To Take Bias Out Of Tech Hiring
Forbes
"It's quantifiable," Lampkin said. "We realized that hiding names and photos created a safer space. Women and people of color felt better sharing their information." Blendoor will go live on March 11th at this year's SXSW digital festival for public ...and more »
Triple Pundit (registration) (blog)Silicon Valley Gets Its Report Card On Workplace Diversity (And It's Not Pretty)
Triple Pundit (registration) (blog)
Blendoor, launched by CEO Stephanie Lampkin, recently released a report rating Silicon Valley tech companies on four key drivers: leadership, retention, recruitment and social impact. Companies were evaluated not only on whether they support gender and ...and more »
ForbesMeet The Most Innovative Companies At SXSW 2017
Forbes
Stephanie Lampkin got the inspiration for her app Blendoor from challenges of working as black woman engineer in Silicon Valley. The site hides job seekers' names and photos from employers with the goal of avoiding unconscious bias. Lampkin took home ...and more »