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Jobless in Seattle

  • Saturday, October 25th 2008

It’s been a few days since I was laid off from Zillow.com and I thought I jot down some of the things that have been going on. On Friday, October 17, I got the news that 40+ colleagues and I were being let go from Zillow in an effort to reduce company spending.  Our official final day of employment would be the next Tuesday, October 21, 2008. This really did not come as much of a shock to me, but others being laid off were very surprised and upset.  I feel that Zillow.com did a good job of handling the…

Zillow Release

  • Thursday, September 4th 2008

At Zillow we are trying to launch new code to our website 24 times a year, our approximately every other week.  By new code I’m not including bug fix code.  I’m talking about new features, services, views, reports, and such thing that really change the customers experience on our site.  This also includes major software back end services, that may not be plainly visible but, fundamentally and/or architecturally change the way we mung provide access to our vast amounts of data.  Bug fixes get rolled out each day for a couple of days following the Release. Today was a Release…

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