HashiCorp

If you work at HashiCorp, you'll make good money and have good benefits. The stock options are really worth something.

Some of the products have a real positive impact on the world. Being remote is great if it suits your personality. The founders have policies in place protecting minorities.

Even with policies in place protecting minorities, it's the same tech crowd as other companies who have issues with bias, so why would they follow these policies?

It takes more than policies; it takes training and programs.

Despite hiring a Diversity and Inclusion department head, there are no visible programs rolled out regarding bias.

Today at HashiCorp, if you are a minority, no matter how well you perform, you can be targeted at any time, and it can (and will) derail any hard-earned career progress you have made.

Educate the workforce on unconscious bias and how to prevent it. Recognize that you have folks working here from places like Uber, and who live in conservative areas of the U.S., and create a separate channel where people can report potential bias incidents or simply bad behavior. Train HR and leadership on how to handle these incidents effectively. When bad behavior occurs, it should be dealt with swiftly and directly with the aggressor. The involuntary recipient of the bad behavior should not need to spend further time on it.

If you are a minority thinking about working at HashiCorp, hold off until they have an active bias prevention program in place, and until they publish a process regarding how bad behavior can be reported and will be handled. This process should include shielding the recipient of the bad behavior from further negative consequences, such as victim-blaming or needing to help rectify the aggressor's behavior. The employee handbook today is vague on how it will be handled, and so it's left up to the best guess of people who have never handled a bias incident or bad behavior before, or who have but didn't necessarily handle it well.

These are known problems in tech, and if HashiCorp doesn't want to be like the rest of tech, it needs to put more safeguards in place. It does not have enough today.