Company News
Elephant versus Dolphin: Which is Faster? Which is Smarter?
vs. Redfin recently switched some of our backend DB infrastructure from MySQL to Postgres, and we plan to wholly switch to Postgres in the near
Dear College Students: Intern at a Startup
Hi, I’m the Redfin intern that apparently asked our CEO’s wife out. I wanted to share my experience here at Redfin in hopes of helping
$549,999 is A Better Price for Your Home Than $550,001 (5% Better)
With more than 70% of home-buyers looking on the Web for real estate to buy, we wondered if it made sense when pricing a house
Making Real Estate Search Faster and More Local
Some things are universal, such as when you click on a link you want an instant reaction. Redfin’s response time hasn’t been as fast as
Redfin, By the Numbers, And an Experiment
After popping up on TechCrunch and BusinessWeek Friday and in Slashdot over the weekend, Redfin appeared on Guy Kawasaki’s blog today, in a post comparing
Getting the Time Zone from a Web Browser
Writing rich date/time features in a web app can be a pain. Apps (such as schedulers) that do math on times (e.g. ordering times) should
Nela Richardson Offers Advice to College Graduates at UMD Ceremony
On Wednesday, December 21st Redfin Chief Economist Nela Richardson returned to her alma mater at the University of Maryland to give the following address to
My Redfin Internship: Eve Yuan
Eve describes her experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
My Redfin Internship: Justin Harjanto
Justin describes his experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
Create Your First Product Strategy
For me, a product strategy is an opinionated view on what are the best few routes to achieve your long-term goal. I often think about it as planning to climb a summit.
Unlocking a Mystery: Visualizing the Common Webpack Bundles
Our common webpack bundle is sometimes large, so we wrote a tool to analyze why.
My Redfin Internship: Daniel Gileadi
Daniel describes his experience as a UI/UX intern in Seattle.
