Workforce Diversity at Yelp

At Yelp, diversity is important to our product, our work environment, and our ability to cultivate a successful global company. We seek to build a team with varying cultural backgrounds, life experiences, ages, genders, sexual orientations, religious and political beliefs, educations, opinions and more. Some of these are more easily measured, such as the gender and ethnicity statistics shown below that we are making available today.

I am not satisfied with these numbers. In particular, we must do more to recruit women to our tech team and minorities into all departments at Yelp. Some efforts we have undertaken to this point include:

• Actively recruiting women engineers through sponsorship and participation at the Anita Borg Institute’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and SoCal Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.
• Participating in programs that benefit minority groups, including board membership by Yelp executives at Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) and Year Up. We also have been fortunate to be able to hire Year Up participants for internship and full-time positions.
• Participating in and hosting events for Women Who Code, Girl Geek Dinners, Lesbians Who Tech, Spark, and participating in CODE, a documentary about supporting women in engineering and computer science roles.
• Internal women’s leadership and support groups, and management leadership development programs.

As a next step, we will be hiring a new leader to focus on diversity and to help accelerate our action in this area. For more information on Yelp’s current workforce diversity numbers, read our EEO-1 report.