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My Redfin Internship: Anne Lim
Anne describes her experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
Redfin Estimate: Now More Accurate and Available in Twice as Many Markets
Less than a year after its launch, an update has been made to the algorithm behind the Redfin Estimate, making the automated home-value estimate significantly more accurate.
My Redfin Internship: Tim Guan
In the spring of my sophomore year, I experienced something like a mid-undergrad crisis. I’d enrolled in introductory computer science on a dare and was
My Redfin Internship: Paul Cruz
Paul describes his experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
My Redfin Internship: Shafqat Dulal
Diving Right In Coming into the internship, I had high hopes. Among other things, I was drawn to Redfin by the opportunity to make a
My Redfin Internship: Utsav Ahuja
Utsav describes his experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
DeeJayOh Argues that the Problem is Still Inventory, not Demand
Every month, Redfin publishes a newsletter about real estate prices out to a few hundred thousand people. A few hundred write back. The tone of
Tracey Foley
A Boston-area Redfin field agent was arrested today by the FBI on charges of being a Russian spy. In her job application, she identified herself
The Rise of the Quants
My favorite anecdote in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short is about one of the first people to make big bets against mortgage bonds, a Deutsche
What the Government Could Really Do to Support Entrepreneurs
Innovation and entrepreneurship are becoming my two least-favorite words, mostly because they are being appropriated in ways that are neither innovative nor entrepreneurial. Like in
Jeff Hammerbacher on Hadoop, Facebook and a Surprising Bit About Microsoft
As part of our engineer-to-engineer series of technical talks, Cloudera co-founder Jeff “The Hammer” Hammerbacher visited Redfin’s San Francisco office last week to explain why
Engineer-to-Engineer: Evolving a New Analytical Platform with Hadoop
In the second installment of our San Francisco series of engineer-to-engineer lectures, Jeff Hammerbacher described the challenges of building data-intensive, distributed applications and how using
