Uber's Engineering Sponsorship and Development Program (ESDP) was created by Thuan Pham, Uber CTO, and Sarah Bowman, CoS to the CTO, to help inspire a culture of sponsorship at Uber, as well as cultivate a more diverse and cross-functional engineering community. Through a six-month-long structured pilot program focused on sponsorship and leadership, ESDP gave junior engineers at Uber the opportunity to take leadership training courses in effective communication, leading with resilience and self-knowledge, among other topics, as well as paired them with sponsors at the senior manager or director level.
“We want our engineering team to be the best that it can be in terms of an environment for people to thrive,” says Thuan. “Having a program like this is very useful because it serves as an impetus for sponsors and participants to form this type of relationship, which allows both parties to grow.”
Learn more about the program: eng.uber.com/esdp
12 мар 2020
