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How to Triple the Number of Women Appointed to Boards in Three Years
After The New York Times covered Twitter’s lack of gender diversity on its board in 2013, the ratio of women to men appointed to boards of public tech companies started to increase.
My Redfin Internship: Chengtao Ji
I learned about Redfin through its advertisement 7 years ago, which was chosen as listening material for my high school English class. I believe it
My Redfin Internship: Jake Magill
Jake describes his experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
My Redfin Internship: Luis Mojica
I spent my summer as an engineering intern at Redfin, and it was a truly amazing experience. The culture at Redfin is unlike that of
Redfin Announces a $2,500 College Scholarship
Want to go to college? Apply for Redfin’s first-ever college scholarship!
My Redfin Internship: Roman Blum
Roman describes his experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
If I Can Change, and You Can Change, Everybody Can Change!
There’s plenty of talk on Twitter and the web about my saying in an interview with the Globe & Mail in Toronto that the real estate industry
Email, Phone & Fax All Back Online
All the ways you’d normally communicate with us are now back online. This includes agent emails, agent office phone numbers and fax numbers. We’re very
Daniel Phommathep, Rest in Peace
Dave Selinger, Redfin’s founding CTO and now the CEO of RichRelevance, contacted us today with news that one of the original developers of Redfin’s website,
First the Novel, Then The Essay, Now The Link
The web has turned every writer into a modernist poet. Take the strange little masterpiece that is Tom Scocca’s essay on the martyrdom of Gilbert
Laziness (in proxies) is a virtue
In Hibernate, when you indicate that a domain object should not support lazy proxies, you make it hard for DAO writers to get their code to perform well. Worse, you disable a capability that they may be counting on, and they may not notice until there are major performance problems. Unless you have a good reason to, use “@Proxy(lazy = true)” on your domain objects.
We Blew Up the Call Center (And We Launched Atlanta)
The world’s best real estate brokerage came to Atlanta today, increasing the number of active listings available on Redfin’s site by a whopping 30%. But
