Powered by their soldier recruiters and HR professionals, companies are fighting the talent wars on multiple fronts First, there’s the battle to attract candidates who possess the skills you need Many employers are fishing from the same pool of experienced engineers, data scientists, and others with...
By Lisa Haugh, VP of People and General Counsel This is my second year here at Udemy with us being nominated as a “best place to work” by the San Francisco Business Times Since my job title is VP of People and I head up our Employee Success team, you’d think I’d be exchanging high-fives all around Of...
Performance reviews can strike fear in the hearts of otherwise level-headed employees Fraught with subjectivity and judgment, reviews too often put people in the hot seat and focus on negativity -- here’s a goal you missed, here’s what you’ve been doing wrong, etc Most human resources departments would...
This week, we announced the arrival of Darren Shimkus as our new vice president and general manager of Udemy for Business Now, let’s spend a few minutes getting to know him a little better How did you hear about Udemy I met Dennis (CEO Dennis Yang) earlier in my career, and I began following Udemy when he joined...
Please join us in welcoming Grégory Boutté to the Udemy team as our vice president of content! Grégory will be responsible for how we work with instructors to acquire great content and how we manage our library to deliver the best content to our students Grégory most recently was the chief revenue officer at...
We are excited to announce a new member of the executive team, Rob Wong! Rob is joining as the vice president of product and will be managing Udemy’s product and design initiatives As our CEO Dennis Yang put it, Rob “had the rare combination of product vision, team-building chops, and the humility to be part of...
Today we’re excited to welcome a new member to our executive team Lisa Haugh is joining the team as Udemy’s General Counsel and brings with her 15 years of legal expertise from working with various startups and mature companies Lisa’s unique background spans the types of issues that are making waves in the tech...
Last week we celebrated our Best Places to Work in the Bay Area award! Our VP of HR Pat Schoof sat down with CEO Dennis Yang to reflect on this honor and get his perspective on what makes Udemy such a wonderful place to work Here’s what Dennis had to share Describe our company culture in five words Optimistic,...
We’re proud to announce our inclusion on the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Best Places to Work in the Bay Area list! Our VP of HR Pat Schoof says it best, “It's due to everyone's work, positive attitude and input to making a great culture!” Shannon Hughes and Cara...
We’re a quickly growing team of diverse movers and shakers We’re looking for great candidates to join us on our mission to help anyone learn anything At Udemy, we place a high degree of importance on our interview process We do this for a few reasons - not only because our people make Udemy what it is, but...
Udemy is quickly growing Last year we tripled our employee count and as new folks continually join the team, we want to ensure everyone has ample opportunity to get to know each other well Udemy has a Culture Club, which is a group of employee culture ambassadors who plan fun activities They recently started a new...
