Uber is set to hire at least 800 women for its tech projects in 2023.
Under its second career hiring for women program uReturn, the organization aims to hire women as product managers and engineers in India. These are women who have been on career breaks for several reasons.
Another program called ‘Pinnacle’ offers flexible and remote working options for women— those returning after a break — in tech operations, mapping, and machine learning, added news reports.
“While already 150 women have been hired under the programs, the company aims to hire 800 in the coming year. We would quadruple these to 800 next year,” Business Standard quoted Megha Yethadka, senior director, program management tech, and head of global scaled solutions, Uber, as saying. Megha added that diversity was a prerogative for the company that believed ‘great minds don’t think alike’.
She added that the company had benefitted immensely from diversity hiring.
Second-career hiring is an important DEI strategy for companies aiming to improve their gender diversity. The Best Companies for Women in India (BCWI), a yearly gender analytics exercise by Avtar and Seramount has found that 71% of the Top 100 BCWI ran these programs.
