Saloni Shah

"Solving problems with tech and within tech"

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Writing a good self-review

Tips for your annual performance review

It's the annual performance review season for me. Many of us have to go through this exercise - and some of us look at it with dread. Shouldn't my performance speak for itself? Why should I have to write down all the awesome work I did in the last year/6 months/quarter....?

Not me!

I find performance review, . . .

June 01, 2022

I have no complaints about my job

A recent New York times opinion piece sparked a discussion in a group of my friends. The discussion got me thinking and prompted me to publish my story. I have been in the tech industry for over 10 years. I am currently a senior software engineer in a publicly traded tech company. I work from home full time and this was true pre-pandemic too. . . .

April 12, 2021

Recruiting for "diversity"

How to recruit "without bias" to build successful teams

I've interviewed for multiple positions throughout my career, I've interviewed others for software engineer positions. I've also interviewed candidates for leadership positions - in profit & non-profit organizations. These are my ideas on recruiting (specifically in tech - but some of these could apply to non-tech . . .

June 13, 2017

Advice for organizations lacking diversity

A 4-step plan to tackle one of tech industry's biggest problems

I was recently asked if I had any advice for organizations that lack diversity. Here's my response.

Here’s a 4-step plan for companies lacking diversity:

Realize that lack of diversity is a problem that needs to be solved fast.
Start measuring and publishing these numbers (at least internally). The . . .

March 19, 2017

Own It

The power of women at work

Last weekend, I finally got my hand on the new book Own It by Sallie Krawcheck. It was a great read. Her approach of stating facts - backed up data, real data, appealed to me. Some of the data she reports is mindboggling. And I couldn't help tweeting about it. Of course, Sallie's easy, conversational style of writing and wry humor had me . . .

Posted in: women_in_tech

March 11, 2017

Why you shouldn't wish me a Happy Women's Day

I am not one for rants. But this is probably going to be one. Because all day long people have wished me a Happy Women’s Day. And every single time someone has wished me, I have cringed inside. I have had this feeling in the pit of my stomach that won’t go away.

Women’s day was originally put in place to . . .

March 08, 2017

ACT-W Conference 2016: The story

A conference to advance careers of technical women

The last 3 days have been so awesome. I am a part of the ChickTech Chicago leadership team - and we just organized our first annual ACT-W Chicago Conference (Oct 13-15 2016). The ACT-W conference is for advancing the careers of technical women and is organized by ChickTech chapters around the country. All profits from the . . .

Posted in: women_in_tech

October 15, 2016

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