Engineer Highlight: Michael Luo
As members of Zillow Group, we like to celebrate the contributions and unique perspectives of the members of our teams. “Engineer Highlight” is a new series of articles and interviews highlighting people, their projects, and their experiences. Michael, how long have you worked at Zillow? Who are you in the office, who are you outside… Continue Reading
Video Walkthroughs for the Zillow Android App
Zillow empowers home shoppers to make informed decisions by providing them with as much information as possible about each listing. Also, agents and home sellers need to be able to highlight each home’s key features and layout. Moving to providing home videos, in addition to the standard photo gallery, is a natural progression. In February… Continue Reading
What Home Means to Zillow Employees: A Visualization Series
At Zillow we spend a lot of time thinking about what home means to our users. This Hack Week I decided to take a deeper dive into what home means to people who work at Zillow. I wanted to capture both quantifiable measures of employees’ home lives and also the more intangible reflections of what… Continue Reading
Talking About Mobile on the Women In Tech Show
I was recently interviewed by the Women in Tech Show for their podcast. It was a lot of fun – I talked about starting our mobile apps at Zillow, making tradeoffs between mobile web vs. apps, and measuring mobile engagement. We also got a chance to discuss a recent article I wrote called “Why I am… Continue Reading
Engineer Highlight: Vivien Ng
As members of Zillow Group, we like to celebrate the contributions and unique perspectives of the members of our teams. As an extension of this goal, we’re introducing “Team Highlights,” a new series of articles and interviews highlighting people, their projects, and their experiences. Vivien, how long have you worked at Zillow? Who are you… Continue Reading
Implementing Smart Lock for Passwords in the Zillow Android app!
Here at Zillow, we’re always trying to provide the best user experience possible. When a user creates an account, we can save their favorite homes and specific searches, personalize their experiences on Zillow, and more. Most of us have dozens of accounts, many of which we use infrequently — it can be hard enough to… Continue Reading
Nonprofits Selected for #SeaTech4Change Tech Volunteer Fair
Last month we announced that Zillow will be hosting the #SeaTech4Change Tech Volunteer Fair on May 19 from 5-7 p.m. We put out a call to nonprofits to submit project proposals that they need tech help with, and we received an amazing response! We’ve now invited 26 of those nonprofits to participate in the event…. Continue Reading
Migrating HotPads to an Isomorphic Stack with React
In December 2014, the HotPads team made the decision to do a complete rewrite of hotpads.com to an isomorphic stack using React. Despite some initial hesitation to veer from a tried and true stack, we jumped straight into it. Motivation for the Rewrite to React Our legacy stack consisted of JSPs, jQuery with AMD Require.js, and… Continue Reading