Company News

The Public Markets Aren’t So Broken After All
The real reason there are fewer IPOs has nothing to do with the IPO process itself.

A Word of Thanks
It should be hard to go public. You should pause a moment before signing financial statements. You should feel the weight of having to tell the whole truth.

When Even Technology Companies Can’t Afford Seattle Anymore
All of these companies are expanding into new cities for a variety of reasons, but a big one has been to follow the talent to a lower cost of living.
Search Your Way! Redfin Rolls Out New Search Filters Including the Ability to Search Only for Single-Story Homes
New filters address aging population’s desire for accessible homes to age in place

Redfin Notifies Customers About New Listings Hours Faster Than Other Top Real Estate Websites
In real estate markets with high competition and low supply, being the first to know about a new listing can mean the difference between getting the house and missing out.

Diversity and Redfin’s Culture of Dissent
For a long time now, I’ve been wanting to discuss diversity, workplace politics and our culture of dissent.
What Starbucks Learned About Learning
As part of our 2010 brown-bag series of workshops, Redfin on Friday hosted Christine McHugh to talk about what she learned about training folks in
Synchronous/Asynchronous Switching with Varnish
When your webapp is serving up content that’s expensive to generate, you may want to serve it up asynchronously- via AJAX calls. This is particularly
The Hangover
Redfin has hardly been an advocate for real estate tax credits. When the original first-time home-buyer credit was set to expire last November, we urged
ESI and Caching Trickery in Varnish
Varnish is a high performance, flexible, open source HTTP accelerator. We started using Varnish at Redfin in our last major release, a few weeks ago.
Engineer-to-Engineer Talk: How and Why Twitter Uses Scala
To kick off our San Francisco series of engineer-to-engineer lectures on new technologies and interesting problems in consumer software, we invited in the Great Alex
Take Your Child to Work Day – Redfin Style
In addition to being Earth Day, April 22nd was also Take Your Child to Work Day. Originally designed as “Take your Daughter to Work Day”