Case Study: Duolingo achieves more inclusive recruiting language and scales DEIB with Textio

Duolingo brings on Textio to refine job posts, improve talent branding, and scale DEIB across the company

Duolingo, the education‑technology company behind the world’s most downloaded language‑learning app, wanted to make its hiring more inclusive and consistent across a multicultural 600+ person organization. To ensure job descriptions and talent branding matched its DEIB commitments, Duolingo brought on Textio—deploying Textio Loop and integrations like Greenhouse—to evaluate and improve recruiting language company‑wide.

Textio was rolled out across talent acquisition with manager training, real‑time guidance, Textio U courses, and a Greenhouse integration; Duolingo now requires job posts to hit a Textio Score of 85+ and averages about a 90. Using Textio, Duolingo standardized boilerplate, sped up time‑to‑post with templates, scaled DEIB education, and gained reporting to track representation and language improvements—moving from a starting score of 54 to consistent, measurable gains with Textio.

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Alyah Sablan

Recruiting Operations Manager