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How I Had to Change to Increase Diversity
Some of the changes I had to as make as Redfin’s CEO to support diversity were painful.

Why I Work at Redfin: Karen Jones
Hear what Redfin Listing Specialist, Karen Jones has to say about her 10-year journey with Redfin

How Much is One Point of Transit Score Worth?
On average, across the 14 metros analyzed, one Transit Score point can increase the price of a home by $2,040. But the price premium varies widely from metro to metro.

Redfin CTO Bridget Frey Discusses Diversity & Inclusion at Google Cloud Next
In honor of International Women’s Day, our Chief Technology Officer spoke alongside other female leaders on a panel about diversity & inclusion in tech at Google Cloud Next’17.


How Accurate is the Redfin Estimate?
In a new study, the Redfin Estimate more accurately predicted the value of thousands of homes for sale than estimates from the other leading providers of public home-value estimates.
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”