Women in Tech Meetup #3: Bias Busting, Interviews & Monoliths

If you love technology, are passionate about coding and empowering diversity in the tech world - come join us for our 3rd “Women in Tech Forum” meetup. We, at Wix Engineering, believe diversity is crucial for building a strong culture. Diversity enhances creativity, and induces better decision-making and problem-solving. Furthermore, diverse companies are known to have better work environments and ultimately produce better end-products. Our goal is to help increase women's presence in the tech fields, and enable a networking platform for knowledge & experience sharing, thus leading to the creation of a supportive community. The meetup will be held in Hebrew, and it is open to both women and men. Join us! Schedule: 18:00 - 18:30 - Gathering, drinks and food 18:30 - 19:20 - Bias Busting / Dona Raz and Smadar Bibichaiev Weisman 19:20 - 19:30 - Break 19:30 - 20:10 - Job Interviews -Tips From an Interviewer/ Hila Noga 20:10 - 20:50 - Slaying the Dragon: Understand How to Rewrite Monoliths into Microservices / Dalia Simons "Bias Busting", Dona Raz and Smadar Weisman Research shows that awareness of unconscious biases (each of us has some!) that underlie beliefs, is necessary for changing attitudes. In 2013, Google began educating its employees and leaders by creating and delivering a mandatory 'Unconscious Bias @ Work' training across the company. Smadar and Dona will share a taste of it and encourage adoption. “Job Interviews -Tips From an Interviewer”, Hila Noga You sent out a bunch of resumes and got back an invitation to an interview. OMG! The stress!!! Fret not! Diversity meetup is here for the rescue. Come and hear about mental tools and attitudes that will help you steel your mind before embarking on this perilous journey, and give you some insight into the mind of the interviewers you will meet on your way (Spoiler: it may be empty). We will laugh. We will cry. And we definitely *will* eat cookies. “Slaying the Dragon: Understand How to Rewrite Monoliths into Microservices”, Dalia Simons Do you have an old monolith you really want to rewrite, but don’t know where to start? Dalia Simons shares ideas, tips, and strategies for rewriting an important monolith service into microservices while maintaining full availability. Drawing on her firsthand experience, Dalia explains when to rewrite, how to approach the problem, issues that she encountered (and solutions), and lessons learned along the way. ----- About Dona: Dona Raz - Public Policy & Government Relations Manager @ Google, Dona works across EMEA Emerging Markets (Africa, Middle East, Russia). Prior, Dona worked at the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) as an Advisor. Fluent in French, Spanish, English and Hebrew, she holds a M.A. in Government as well as a B.A. in Communications and Management. Dona is Chapter Lead of Women-il@. Mother of Melody and Nathan and married to awesome Raanan. About Smadar: Smadar Weisman - Smadar's as been at Google for the past 5 years. Today, Human Resources consultant for the Emerging Markets (Africa, Middle East, Russia) supporting 7 countries with varying HR related topics. Starting with coaching managers, through managing performance and consultation on team dynamics, reorgs, career development and more. Smadar Led several Diversity projects across Africa and Israel. Smadar holds a M.A in Psychological Sociology and a B.A in Psychology and Criminology. Lives in Tel Aviv, married to Asaf and mother to Arielle. About Hila: Hila Noga - Hila is ex-CTO @ Hello Heart - a mobile health startup that helps heart patients track and understand their health. She has 14 years of experience building software, training software builders, and managing teams that build software. About Dalia: Dalia Simons - Dalia is a server developer at Wix. An experienced software engineer, writing server code has been her passion and career for the last 10 years. Dalia believes that keeping your code simple and readable is the key to easily maintaining it over time.