Company: CSTL
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001447362-25-000050
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Company: CASTLE BIOSCIENCES INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: PRE 14A
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 In June 2024, we conducted our fourth annual employee engagement survey to understand what was working well at Castle and what opportunities we had for improvement. We received feedback from over 95% of our employees and achieved an engagement score of 85%, meaning that 85% of our employees are engaged or enthusiastically engaged in the culture at Castle. Our engagement score was higher than the healthcare benchmark average of 70% for other healthcare companies who conducted the same employee engagement survey in 2024.

### Human Capital Management
As a rapidly growing company, we have begun to transform and modernize our culture and talent management by implementing Human Capital Management reporting and practices to establish a foundation to enable leaders to monitoring talent trends, better hire talent, manage teams, and manage turnover talent risks. These practices include standards for setting goals, performance evaluations, succession planning, and learning and development.

The health and safety of our employees is paramount, and our success is fundamentally connected with the well-being of our people. Thus, the health and well-being of our employees is our top priority and in recognition of this, we aim to provide a robust health and wellness package, including:

• competitive salary;

• annual bonus opportunity;

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• equity compensation, including stock options and/or RSUs and participation in our employee stock purchase plan;

• defined contribution 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions;

• medical, dental and vision plans with generous Company support;

• paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave policies;

• paid holidays and paid time off;

• an employee assistance program; and

• wellness initiatives and incentives

#### Social Responsibility
We are committed to improving health through innovative tests that help guide patient care, which includes our efforts to make our tests more accessible and more affordable, and we engage with organizations who share these goals.

We believe that quality care should not be dependent on a patient’s financial situation. We work with a variety of insurance providers to obtain payment for our tests, including Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurers and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. We also offer financial support through our Patient Assistance Program.

We also believe that investing in local communities to create social outcomes is at the heart of generating our culture of inclusion, and we believe in giving back to the communities in which we live and work. Patient advocacy is at the center of our community engagement strategy. We are proud to work alongside some of the leading skin cancer, esophageal cancer,