Tokens and Millicents – technical challenges in launching Indeed around the world
This talk was held on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 7:00pm
Engineering a product to serve jobseekers around the world requires solving a diverse set of technical challenges. In this talk, we delved deeper into some of those technical challenges we addressed to make our product succeed internationally. We described how language detection, text segmentation and stemming helped improve the relevance of our search results. We shared how we’ve had to evolve our sponsored auction and billing systems to handle multiple currencies.
Speakers
Preetha Appan is a software engineer with Indeed since 2007. She has worked on the jobsearch backend and resume teams and enjoys working on challenging problems in search and machine learning.
Dan Heller is the Engineering Director for Employer Applications at Indeed. For the last 5 years he has been working on building applications and technology to help employers be successful at Indeed, including the internationalization of employer products and the advertising system.