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Why I Work At Redfin: Danny Roberts, Recruiting
Danny Roberts explains how his experience on “The Real World” and multiple jobs after that prepared him for his role at Redfin, and what he loves about the company. It kicks off a new series we’re starting on the Redfin Blog featuring employees in different jobs and departments.

A/B Testing Framework: Build or Buy?
Six months ago Redfin needed an A/B testing framework. The big question: “Do we use a service or do we build our own?” After a

Buying a Condo in Ballard Just Got More Beautiful: Introducing Solo Lofts
Today Redfin announced that 20 condos are available for pre-sale in the new Solo Lofts building coming to Ballard.

Design of Everyday Things at Redfin
“Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.” – Donald A. Norman To supplement the Redfin new

Redfin Announces $50-million Investment Led by Tiger Global Management and T. Rowe Price
Today Redfin announced a mezzanine investment of $50 million led by Tiger Global Management LLC and by portfolios managed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

Dozens of Redfin Agents Ranked Best in State
Dozens of Redfin agents were named to an exclusive list of best agents in their state, standing out among the nearly one million licensed REALTORS® across the country.
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