It’s funny how much we blog at Redfin without ever really saying what life at Redfin is really like. Enter Shahaf Abileah, the engineering lead who radically changed the speed, breadth and accuracy of our data imports from broker databases.
He’s taking a long-planned one-year sabbatical with his fiancee to travel around the world, and just […]

It’s funny how much we blog at Redfin without ever really saying what life at Redfin is really like. Enter Shahaf Abileah, the engineering lead who radically changed the speed, breadth and accuracy of our data imports from broker databases.
He’s taking a long-planned one-year sabbatical with his fiancee to travel around the world, and just […]

A job applicant just told me Thursday that “Everybody knows you don’t like Microsoft or Amazon people.” Just last week, a board member heard the same thing.
Which came as news to our chief technology officer, our Seattle-based engineering leaders, three star product managers and our hyper-productive lone marketing director, all of whom worked at Microsoft.
And […]

A job applicant just told me Thursday that “Everybody knows you don’t like Microsoft or Amazon people.” Just last week, a board member heard the same thing.
Which came as news to our chief technology officer, our Seattle-based engineering leaders, three star product managers and our hyper-productive lone marketing director, all of whom worked at Microsoft.
And […]

I’ll be the last one — Redfin has been busy with its company meeting last Friday–  to say I love Microsoft’s new “I’m a PC” ad.
Doesn’t It Remind of You That Discovery Channel Ad? But maybe I’m the first who wonders if it was inspired by The Discovery Channel’s “The World is Just Awesome” […]

I’ll be the last one — Redfin has been busy with its company meeting last Friday–  to say I love Microsoft’s new “I’m a PC” ad.
Doesn’t It Remind of You That Discovery Channel Ad? But maybe I’m the first who wonders if it was inspired by The Discovery Channel’s “The World is Just Awesome” […]

One small good thing about Wall Street’s terrifying meltdown: this year’s graduating class will send fewer of its best people into investment banking and more into fields where they’ll actually make something new and good.
I remember walking around Pioneer Square last year with one of my favorite Redfin engineers, who was mulling career options and […]

One small good thing about Wall Street’s terrifying meltdown: this year’s graduating class will send fewer of its best people into investment banking and more into fields where they’ll actually make something new and good.
I remember walking around Pioneer Square last year with one of my favorite Redfin engineers, who was mulling career options and […]

Republicans and Democrats alike are crucifying Carly Fiorina for saying her own candidate, John McCain, is unqualified to run a technology business.It’s odd to hear a spokesman for the Obama campaign, which only last week defended community organizing as good preparation for political office, suggest that a much different ability is now a prerequisite.
It’s odder […]

Republicans and Democrats alike are crucifying Carly Fiorina for saying her own candidate, John McCain, is unqualified to run a technology business.It’s odd to hear a spokesman for the Obama campaign, which only last week defended community organizing as good preparation for political office, suggest that a much different ability is now a prerequisite.
It’s odder […]