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Advice for the Transition from College to Industry
The transition from college to industry came with quite a few surprises and lessons. Reflecting back on own my experience, I want to share a few insights I’ve gained. Additionally I want to share habits I formed during my undergraduate that transitioned well, as well as those that required significant changes in order to assimilate… Read more
Why We Use Bayesian Inference
At Wealthfront, we’re constantly experimenting with our products to make them better. Like other internet companies, we use a metrics-driven approach to test product changes. Each change is validated with an A/B test (hypothesis test), where we evaluate the change on a subset of clients by measuring its impact on some business metric, like the… Read more
Testing with Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table At Wealthfront, we manage over $2.5 Billion in assets that we have been trusted with by our clients. Trust and transparency are the foundations of a strong relationship between a financial institution and… Read more
Performant CSS Animations
Web performance can be split into two relatively distinct categories: first page load and subsequent interactions. We can improve the first load by decreasing the server response time, and optimizing the loading of CSS and Javascript. Once the website is loaded, there is a completely new set of performance related challenges: using a Javascript framework… Read more
Similarities of Disruptive Companies
At the end of our Wealthfront Onboarding program, we ask new team members what about Wealthfront most differs from their prior expectations. The most common answer is “Wealthfront is not a finance company.” This answer is unsurprising in retrospect, as it reflects a common yet fundamental misunderstanding of disruptive companies: many people believe startups win… Read more
WF-CRAN: R Package Management at Wealthfront
R is a powerful statistical programming language with a large range of built-in capabilities that are further augmented by an extensive set of third-party packages available through the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). At Wealthfront, R is an important tool with many use cases across the company. These include analyzing our business metrics to enable… Read more