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How To Find a Great Engineering Culture

November 19, 2013

Earlier this year I decided to return to startups after five amazing years at LinkedIn. Finding a company with an engineering-driven culture was one of my highest priorities. My challenge was developing a framework to determine if a prospective employer had what I was looking for. Over the years I have observed that successful company… Read more

Worlds Collide

November 08, 2013

Before I ever became interested in finance or big data, I was working on software for real-time, concurrent embedded systems. I was the main contributor for the Soft Walls project, a 9/11-inspired project where we were designing aircraft control algorithms to prevent pilots from entering no-fly zones. I was later a contributor to the Ptolemy… Read more

Two Hour Change Leads to Three More Years.

October 31, 2013

A short time ago I was applying for jobs at a select few software companies. As an applicant, I tried to determine which company would not only allow for internal improvement in coding and self, but also an environment which I could actively influence. Many might find it appealing enough to fit inside of a… Read more

Wealthfront hosts October’s Femgineer Forum

October 24, 2013

We were really happy to host this month’s Femgineer Forum here in our office. Karen Catlin gave her insightful presentation on how to create and maintain one’s “street cred”: ways to document your successes and help people find out about your strengths whether it be in the open source community or on LinkedIn. The line… Read more

Engineering Display Hack Day

October 17, 2013

What do we do when we have eight large TVs in the office driven by Mac Minis and a need to put our finger on the pulse of the business? We hold a hack day for the displays! We allocated a Friday to seeing what interesting visualizations and summaries we could put up on the… Read more

Marketside chats #2: Options for non-dummies

October 08, 2013

This article will explain some common misconceptions about options, using some simplifications. (1) It is not applicable to typical startup call options. (2) A call option allows you to buy a stock at a specified strike price by a specified expiration date. For a put option, replace ‘buy’ with ‘sell’. An option can be thought… Read more

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