Everything Katie Burke said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Burke: Most HR professionals solve for compliance over growth
“Most HR professionals have been conditioned
To solve for compliance versus growth.”
Burke: Employees exhibiting harassment or blatant disregard must be fired
“If it's blatant disregard, if it's harassment, if it's a pattern of behavior against a particular group or individual, that behavior is incredibly hard to fix, and I'm sick and tired of companies making excuses for not fixing and addressing it. It's unacceptab…”
Burke: Keeping scaled-out or unhappy early employees is a major mistake
“One of the biggest mistakes company can make is holding on to those people and going, we just have to find a place for this person. We have to, it is not good for those people to stick around if they don't love the company and your mission any longer, and it's…”
Burke: Differentiate harassment patterns from insensitive learning moments
“I think we need to draw a hard line between making a comment or an action that harasses someone categorically unhelpful. Each one of us at some point, no one's going to cop to it now in this environment, but each one of us at some point has said something that…”
Burke: HubSpot publishes raw employee survey data to its internal wiki
“We do an anonymous quarterly survey of all of our employees.
We never assume that our culture is working.
We always assume that we can do better.
So we feel that every single quarter anonymously, globally, and we get huge participation and we get a whole lot o…”
Burke: The best perks are meaningful work and smart peers
“The best perk, regardless of where you work, is meaningful work.
And the second best perk, regardless of where you work, is having really quality, smart peers.”
Burke: Male engineers asking about gender equality will remain a hiring trend
“One of the coolest trends we're seeing is male engineers coming in asking Asking how we're thinking about gender equality on our engineering team. I think that's gonna continue to be a trend.”
Burke: HubSpot runs women-only coding workshops to aid interview candidates
“As it relates to gender equality in engineering, we often saw that women were not building web apps on the side, and so when they came to talk about their real life experience in a technical interview, they were disadvantaged compared to their male peers, and …”
Burke: Company values must differentiate and filter out mismatched candidates
“Your value should uniquely position you in the same way that your value proposition for your customers distinguishes you from your competitors. Your culture has to do the same thing, and so if your entire culture is motherhood and apple pie, you're doing it wr…”
Burke: HubSpot's wiki once declared it would never hire a CPO
“We actually have a storied wiki post at HubSpot that actually made a declaration that we would never, ever, ever in the history of the company have a chief people officer.”