RichRelevance hosted Hack Week Spring 2013 from April 29th – May 3rd. It was an exciting week filled with fresh ideas and new ways of doing things. For our second {rr} Hack Week, 25 team members participated on 14 different projects which dealt with everything from runtime distributed cache research to real-time informative wallboards.
Here at RichRelevance we regularly run live tests to ensure that our algorithms are providing top-notch performance. Our RichRecs engine, for example, displays personalized product recommendations to consumers, and the $$A/B$$ tests we run pit our recommendations against recommendations generated by a competing algorithm, or no recommendations at all.
When I’m interviewing candidates for RichRelevance, I always give them an opportunity to turn the tables and ask me questions at the end of the session. If I’m the last interviewer of the day, the hapless candidate is often so drained that the questions I get tend toward, “Could you remind me where the bathroom is please?
RichRelevance is hiring at an accelerated but thoughtful pace, and as we continue to scale and capitalize on the significant growth opportunities we see, we’re seeking even more talented engineers to join this no-nonsense bunch:
RichRelevance honored for creating fun, productive, rewarding place to work
I’m naturally very curious. But little did I know that this curiosity would lead to a major career change here at RichRelevance. I first came to RichRelevance in June 2012, when I was hired as a temporary office assistant to help with a San Francisco office move.
It all started with a cheesy holiday party invitation featuring cartoon-style ice skaters carving the words, “Cool As Ice” on a pristine San Francisco winter day (meteorologically impossible to freeze anything outdoor in SF, let alone an entire body of water).
RichRelevance hosted its first official Hack Week last week, and I challenged our engineers with a few simple rules before they embarked on unleashing their inner creativity to dig into their personal projects.