Blog posts by Leanne Garvie

Today I learned – TIL We have a Slack channel, which I’m sure most of you have, which is dedicated to sharing cool hints and tips that we have found out during our working day.  This is the TIL channel and it sometimes throws up some pretty useful things as well as some pretty obvious […]

Over the weekend, a few of the people here at dxw are heading to Silicon Milkroundabout which is being held at The Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. This is a tech-specific recruitment event that we first attended last year. We met a lot of very enthusiastic and skilled people that came along to our […]

Hey everybody, It’s Mental Health Awareness Week so I have a confession to make to you all: I have the loathsome combination of depression and anxiety. Sometimes I find it really hard to even motivate myself out of the horizontal position I am in due to the crushing nature of it all. Yay! I live […]

International Women’s Day #BeBoldForChange Here at dxw we celebrate equality and diversity and believe that gender should not have an influence on how you are treated. It doesn’t matter if you’re binary, non-binary or anyone in between. We recognise is that there is still gender inequality in the world we live in and we want […]

After having had the opportunity to go the the Women of Silicon Roundabout conference in October, I found out from one of the speakers that there was a European Women in Tech event taking place in Amsterdam at the end of November. I hadn’t at this point managed to work out which conference to go […]

We did another retreat last month and it was great for many reasons. Nineteen dxw’ers headed to Hurley, a small village just outside Maidenhead, via trains, planes and automobiles. We stayed at the beautiful Olde Bell Coaching Inn for a couple of nights in an attempt to get out of the office and discuss how to […]