All posts categorized in: Performance

Distilling Long-Tail User Behavior into Scalable Embeddings for Job Search

Authors : Marsan Ma, Nikhil Lopes, Raj Amrit, Hong Lu, Dipankar Biswas, Trent Kyono Leadership: Iris Wang, Madhu Kurup Recommendation and ranking systems power many of the most important experiences on large internet platforms. Yet the models that run in production are rarely the largest models we can train. They are usually compact, latency-sensitive supervised […]

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The Importance of Using a Composite Metric to Measure Performance

A still image depicting a page loading evenly over four seconds

In the past, Indeed has used a variety of metrics to evaluate our client-side performance, but we’ve tended to focus on one at a time. Traditionally, we chose a single performance metric and used it as the measuring stick for whether we were improving or degrading the user experience.  This made it simple to track […]

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