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October 15, 2018
Search is critical to the customer experience at Wayfair. What we show on the first page of results is incredibly important for users. The graph below shows what many people might already know when it comes to browsing and search habits: The majority of customers rarely look beyond the products on the first page of search results.
October 8, 2018
The world of owning home furnishings is similar to owning clothes: Nobody wants to see someone else wearing the same dress. Wayfair has a zillion couches in many different colors, designs, and styles to choose from, and we expanded that reach even further when we created our Custom Upholstery Experience.
October 3, 2018
Moving a couch across multiple countries to land in your living room, a couple of days after placing an order, is a challenging business. The Transportation Engineering team at Wayfair, who look after the transportation portion of our logistics, knows this all too well. This capability has given us a significant competitive advantage and, in the process of building it out, we have inevitably accumulated a considerable amount of what is often referred to as technical debt. Internally, we call this latency work because it is work we must do to reduce the future latency of our engineering efforts.
September 20, 2018
Ever since Google pioneered the concept of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), we’ve seen product reliability, accountability, and assorted innovation in this space skyrocket in importance and scope. At Wayfair, we’ve been working hard to evangelize contemporary solutions to tricky scalability scenarios, investing thoughtfully in cloud enablement and containerization.
September 4, 2018
This past summer, Wayfair welcomed 47 software engineering interns to its Boston headquarters. Traveling from 27 different universities across the United States, these interns were immersed in a summer internship that would challenge them to be critical thinkers, innovators, and collaborative team members as they partnered up with engineering teams to solve complex business problems.
August 13, 2018
Workplace diversity is not just an ethical issue. Teams that overcome diversity issues (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, experience) often achieve greater productivity than homogeneous teams. If you’re surrounded by people who are different from you, you will be constantly challenged to reexamine facts, think deeper, and explain better. In this way diversity can enhance creativity and boost team performance and technological innovation.
July 25, 2018
At Wayfair, we know that software engineering is a team sport. Broadly speaking, we organize our engineers into small working teams of anywhere between three to eight people. When you have issues getting application code running on your development machine, or questions about features that your team supports, having that small, tight-knit working group to turn to is invaluable. We also organize these teams of engineers with additional cross-functional members such as product managers, design, QA, and analytics.
July 11, 2018
Top left to right: Yumeng Ma (University of Michigan), Steven Yin (Columbia), Michael Spece, Carnegie Mellon University), Quinn Donahoe (University of Pittsburgh), Cristian Gavrus (UC Berkeley)
July 9, 2018
As part of the Python Platform Team here at Wayfair, I help support Wayfair’s 100+ Python engineers and data scientists. We’re the go-to team when it comes to better leveraging Python within the Wayfair Tech ecosystem.