In honor of women’s day we want to highlight some of the women working in technology and put focus on their perspective when it comes to technology and gender equality. Read more about who they are, what they are working on and how they think we should work and focus on increasing gender diversity.
Marta Paciorkowska
Who are you?
I’m Marta Paciorkowska, and I’m an infrastructure engineer in FINN’s Infrastructure and Operations team. That’s a lot of infrastructure.
What are you working with right now?
FINN.no migrated our workload to the cloud last September, and now the whole Infrastructure and Operations team…
Summer project 2020
The Team
We are a team of six students who have been trusted with carrying out this year’s summer project at FINN. On the 15th of June, six optimistic students arrived at FINN’s office in Oslo where we would work for eight weeks. Among us were four developers (Anja Rosvold From, Agnar Martin Bjørnstad, Jenny Strømmen and Julian Eliassen Holth) and two UX designers (Tina Mee Johnsen and Camilla Tandrevold Hermanrud) :
The Problem
We were eager to learn more about this summer’s project. During our first briefing, FINN Torget and Motor told us they wanted to communicate the environmental benefit…
Working with the almost impossible goal of going from 13% to 20% gender diversity in Technology in one year.
Where to start?
In FINN we know there are many aspects of diversity, but trying to solve them all at once seemed like an impossible task. Therefore we decided to begin this task by increasing our gender diversity. This wasn’t a problem that suddenly dawned on us. FINN has focused and talked about diversity and gender for several years, but we haven’t really been measuring to see if we got any results. This needed to change, but where should we start?
In the fall of 2018 we launched a new project to focus on diversity, and at that point the…
Summerproject 2019
This summer we have been lucky enough to roam freely at FINNs offices in Central Oslo. Six hopeful students entered the office in mid-June, excited about the eight weeks ahead. The first week was a whirlwind of new information and new people, as we got to know FINN first hand. The team consisted of two designers and four developers, coming from different universities in Norway.
Our challenge for the summer was:
“FINN’s travel services are very effective if you know where and when you want to go. However, if you haven’t decided, FINN doesn’t offer much help.”
So, in other…
