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Tobaccowala: SurveyMonkey's Dated Design Caused Candidates to Underestimate the Business

Selin Tobaccowala · Let Fires Burn (with Gixo's Selina Tobaccowala) · Mar 31, 2023 · at 30:09

Selena Tobaccowala, former CTO of SurveyMonkey, explains how deprioritizing the website's visual redesign created hiring friction.

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“It's like the don't judge a book by its cover, but people were sort of judging this product as being a non-Silicon Valley-based, non-beautiful site and underestimating both its consumer love and its financials.”

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