author: peter poer

peter poer
  • we (still) don’t negotiate salaries – here’s exactly how we make it work.

    specific steps we’ve taken over the past five years to promote equal pay using a no-salary negotiation policy. nearly five years ago, i wrote about how we don’t negotiate salaries as a means of fostering fairness across our company and taking tangible steps to reduce wage gaps that are unfortunately inherent in the tech sector.…

  • want to hire the best candidates? add salary ranges to your job descriptions

    here’s how we’ve approached equal pay through salary transparency, and how you can too. what would happen if all salaries at your company became public today — everyone found out what everyone else was paid? would an employee be upset to learn that they were being paid less than their peers of equal experience? would…

  • two marketers retake the sat: a product experiment

    how we’re building customer empathy and improving our sat prep product by putting ourselves in our students’ shoes. when you picture the average sat test taker, an image of a stressed-out teenager likely comes to mind. and yet, here we are, two woefully unprepared thirty-somethings who will be sitting for the official sat exam on…