As part of our 2010 brown-bag series of workshops, Redfin on Friday hosted Christine McHugh to talk about what she learned about training folks in her 20 years at Starbucks. We expected someone with that much experience to be deep into middle age but in fact she started at Starbucks as a barista while she… Read More
Redfin has been hiring plenty of folks lately, mostly because we have the best recruiter I’ve ever seen in Sophia Gray. Even for Sophia, it has been hard to find the best people, and get them through our behavioral interviews (the discipline here is to ask people about a specific accomplishment and its result, rather… Read More
Redfin has hardly been an advocate for real estate tax credits. When the original first-time home-buyer credit was set to expire last November, we urged Congress to let it expire. But now that the federal credit has finally expired, the $24,000 question is how the market will respond. It will take months to sort this… Read More
Twitter’s Alex Payne visited our San Francisco office yesterday as part of an engineer-to-engineer series of talks on new technologies and best practices for building large-scale consumer web applications. We just posted a recap of Alex’s magnificent talk on our developers’ blog. Alex is an interesting person. He has a tattoo of a Chinese character on… Read More