What's the Company Culture Like at Chime?

What are some examples of ways your company supports or advocates for the LGBTQIA+ community beyond the month of June?

At Chime, we support and advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community in several ways beyond June. 

We offer our Chime members chosen names for their in-app and customer support experiences.

Additionally, employees often run donation and volunteer campaigns with LGBTQIA+ nonprofit organizations, like the Transgender Law Center and Muhlaysia Booker Foundation, to amplify their missions and visions for the community.

Lastly, Chime offers our office space to host events with LGBTQIA+ organizations that aim to increase the community’s representation in the technology space. In 2023, we hosted Lesbians Who Tech’s Pride Happy Hour. 

How does your company support and empower the LGBTQIA+ members of your team? 

Our LGBTQIA+ ERG, OutChime, is a foundational component to creating safe spaces for community, expression, connection and identity to be one’s true self at the workplace. We also work hard to evaluate our demographic categories, including how Chimers self-identify, annually to ensure we’re inclusive of all identities in our employee base. Our benefits team also looks at our providers to ensure we’re choosing providers inclusive of gender identity in their services — and changing those that aren’t.

To foster an inclusive workplace, we offer companywide diversity, equity and belonging foundations training for all Chimers to drive us towards building a more inclusive culture and have a DEB Resource Hub for Chimers to further their education and understanding of topics related to allyship, microaggressions and other behaviors.

When interacting with each other digitally, we encourage everyone to include their pronouns and name pronunciation on Slack, Zoom and email so Chimers know how to correctly identify their colleagues. Whenever we host in-person events with name badges, we have pronoun pins or stickers for people to express their preferred pronouns.