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What my Nephew Taught me About my Career as a Technologist

Last October, at the Lesbians Who Tech in San Francisco, I had the opportunity to speak to a packed house about navigating a career in technology. Whether you’re an aspiring technologist or a seasoned veteran, career navigation is essential in this sector, where unprecedented evolutions and disruptive shifts in innovation require us to plot our course carefully. This is especially the case in the areas of software and algorithms.

A screenshot of the Wayfair Search Page displaying a search for "hunter green table". Search results show rugs, chair cushions, and tables

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How Wayfair’s Scientists Collaborated with Innovative Startup ThirdAI to Serve Hyper-Relevant Search Results to Customers

Wayfair has tens of millions of products that serve the needs of over 33 million customers. Each of our customers have nuanced preferences as they buy products to help them create their own unique sense of home. Our search and recommender systems play an important role in helping customers find these products as quickly and conveniently as possible.

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A Senior Economist at Wayfair Provides Three Tips for PhD Students to Land a Highly Selective Internship at the Company

According to Colin Gray, a growing number of economists are being drawn to the prospect of carrying out interesting work at technology companies like Wayfair.

Wayfair CTO Fiona Tan at FORTUNE Brainstorm A.I. 2022

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The Supply Chain Takes Center Stage at FORTUNE Brainstorm A.I. 2022

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a business area that’s garnered more attention over the last 2+ years than the supply chain. Just recently, Wayfair CTO Fiona Tan spoke about the supply chain at the FORTUNE Brainstorm A.I. 2022 event in San Francisco, where the focus was, you guessed it, artificial intelligence (AI). More specifically, how businesses are shifting from dabbling in A.I. to putting it into the hands of every worker.

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The Journey to Wayfair’s New Cloud-Based EDI System

Not too long ago, Wayfair came to a crossroads with our aging 20-year-old, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) EDI platform, which was not only slow but could not handle the critical new data formats used by our businesses as well as our suppliers and partners.

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Integration Tests with BuildKite

Testing is the critical part of software development. Unit testing is usually where it starts. That’s because it is quick and easy to get started and builds the safeguard to protect the future code changes to ensure they are inline with the corner cases. It is also much easier to maintain. The biggest advantage of unit tests comes from forcing the developers to write modularized and testable code.

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How Wayfair’s Design System Empowers Feature Teams to Dream Bigger

(This article originally appeared on Medium)

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Wayfair’s New Approach to Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis Helps Customers Easily Find “Long Tail” Products

Over thirty million customers from around the world shop on Wayfair to look for furniture that helps them create their unique sense of home. Wayfair serves a variety of webpages catered to niche customer sub-segments and help customers discover new products – these include pages with advice for people buying “twin futons,” or “nursery chairs with removable cushions.”

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How Wayfair Uses Feature Toggles to Deliver Business Value

Feature Toggles (sometimes referred to as Feature Flags) have revolutionized software development by allowing features within a software product to be enabled individually or disabled at any point, even after they’ve been rolled out to customers. Feature Toggles at Wayfair boost productivity and provide teams with complete control over when and how to make new capabilities available to end users.