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Finding Great (and Profitable) Ideas in the Computer Science Literature

I spend quite a bit of time trawling through recent computer science papers, looking for anything algorithmic that might improve my team’s product and Help People Get Jobs. It’s been a mixed bag so far, often turning up a bunch of pretty math that won’t scale at Indeed. But looking through the computer science literature can […]

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Why I Unit Test

If you’ve done any software development in the last fifteen years, you’ve heard people harping on the importance of unit testing. Your manager might have come to you and said “Unit tests are great! They document the code, reduce the risk of adding bugs, and reduce the cost and risk of making changes so we […]

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Open Source Interactive Data Analytics with Imhotep

We are excited to announce the open source availability of Imhotep, the interactive data analytics platform that powers data-driven decision making at Indeed. When we test changes to our applications and services, whether to our user interface or our backend algorithms, we measure how those changes affect job seekers. We built Imhotep to allow our […]

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