Company News
Why I Work at Redfin: Marshall Park
Hear what a long-time real estate agent has to say about what it’s like to work at Redfin.
Redfin Experimenting with iBeacon
How Redfin engineers explored ways to incorporate Apple’s iBeacon into exciting customer experiences.
Introducing the Redfin Estimate
Big news! Redfin today launched the Redfin Estimate, developed to be the most accurate estimate of your home’s value.
Meet the Designers Behind the New Redfin Yard Sign: Lindy Kanand & Angela Salvo
Learn what went into the creation of the new Redfin yard sign.
Why I Work at Redfin: Andrew Chen
We sat down with Andrew in the San Francisco office to get his perspective on what makes Redfin stand out in Silicon Valley, what he values most working in the tech industry and why he chose to get involved with a tech brokerage.
Is a Real Estate Career for You? Redfin Hosts George Mason Students
Last Friday, as a part of Take a Patriot to Work Day, Redfin agents in Northern Virginia hosted several students from George Mason University to give them an inside look at life inside a busy real estate brokerage.
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.
