Every year, we onboard about 200 people, which is no easy feat. That’s why I helped create what is now MailChimp’s onboarding program. As a result, gone are the days when a new hire would be dropped off at their desk and left to their own accord. When the program started, I was the only […]
Diversity is at the heart of MailChimp’s business. Our customers are all over the globe and represent a multitude of cultures and experiences. And we empower them by providing tools that support their unique marketing needs. In September 2016, we started our diversity employee resource group, The Mothership, in the hopes of facilitating some tough
Brian White never really thought of himself as a visual artist. But he’s always had a knack for math, which is how he landed in his first quilting class 5 years ago. It was there that he learned a technique that involves cutting a piece of fabric into hexagrams and rearranging them into kaleidoscopic shapes.
At MailChimp, we’re big fans of storytelling as a learning tool. As a marketing automation platform for small businesses, we encourage our customers to share their challenges and successes with other users through our What’s in Store newsletter. Likewise, we challenge our employees to tell their own stories about work and life. While our customer
“Have a Bad Day Day”—yes, it really is a thing—falls on the 19th of November each year. While this “holiday” has its origins in good humor, some negative people seem to purposefully set out to make days unbearable for the people around them on any given date. And sometimes, we even get in our own
Every day, our 700+ employees work hard on the world’s largest marketing automation platform. So when the end of the week rolls around, we take the opportunity shut down our laptops, load up on donuts and coffee, and give our brains a good stretch with Coffee Hour. Coffee Hour is a series that invites thought-provoking speakers
By Thuy and Milo Sindell Fans of the television show The Office will know that one of the best parts of the series is Michael Scott’s dislike of his HR employee, Toby. Over the years, Michael comes up with countless crazy ideas to “improve” the workplace. And without fail, Toby always shoots them down for
Here at MailChimp, we’ve been working hard to make sure our hometown of Atlanta is better, weirder, and more human. We also invest heavily in our employees, especially when it comes to being able to embrace and share their personal interests in the workplace. Our Employee Engagement Specialist Ashley Wilson sums it up like so:
Atlanta’s Pride history dates back to the early 1970s, when the Georgia Gay Liberation Front organized a march from Peachtree Street to Piedmont Park. Today, the annual parade draws nearly 300,000 people—the largest Pride event in the southeast. The week-long festival is held in October to coincide with National Coming Out Day and culminates with a weekend
MailChimp’s engineering teams, much like the rest of our company, are growing so fast. We’ve got engineers working on different projects all over the organization, and if I’m being totally honest, they’d started drifting apart a bit in the past year. We were all under the same umbrella organizationally, but in terms of why and
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