Company News
Why I Work at Redfin: Dan Bergman
Here’s what Redfin Chicago real estate agent, Dan Bergman, has to say about his transition from personal training to real estate.
Dates Are Not Timestamps
Adventures in date and time handling: the less than obvious perils of representing “4 July 2016” as “2016-07-04 00:00:00”
Why I Work at Redfin: Adrienne Kieschnick
We hear from Senior Dallas Agent Adrienne Kieschnick on her transition from traditional real estate to Redfin.
Why I Work at Redfin: Jackie Colando
Hear what our Chicago Listing Specialist has to say about her transition from law to real estate.
Hello World: What Happens When High-Tech Companies Employ People from All Walks of Life
Redfin real estate agents get salaries, health-care benefits and the opportunities to earn stock options, allowing them to focus on customer satisfaction.
Redfin is Celebrating in Washington, D.C.
Congrats to the Redfin team throughout the Washington, D.C., metro area for an accolade-filled summer! Redfin kicked of the month of June by receiving honors as
Why Isn’t There an Executive Master’s Program in Computer Science?
Two executive MBA students just came by the house to interview me for a class on entrepreneurship. Answering questions about the #1 quality of an
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.
