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Perhaps another way of thinking about it is in terms of being a market maker versus a speculator. I think of Opendoor as more like the former, where traditionally a flipper refers to the latter.

Hadn't seen this before, but looks pretty cool. Thanks!

We have about ~40 people in the engineering org, including the data science team who all frequently write code as well.

The cost structure service is actually what I've been working on recently. We spun up a fairly lightweight flask service (on our kubernetes cluster) that is capable of serving the cost structure to the rails app and for analysis. At its core, it uses a small DAG library we wrote, and on top of that has a migration framework that can represent cost structure changes over time as distinct versions that can be served simultaneously.

I think everyone on the team understands that helping unblock other engineers is as valuable as writing some code yourself. It generally hasn't been an issue getting timely review, though we have discussed tracking the average size of the PR queue as a metric if review times did worsen.

Most of the time other engineers on your team will review your code, but often engineers will pop across teams and doing code reviews if they have the time and the context. One change we've made is moving towards tagging a few engineers who might have the right context when you submit the PR.

Thanks for the tip about the title; will take a look!

I'm a software engineer at Opendoor- happy to answer any questions!

Very neat. Can BuckleScript compile Core?

To me this seems like the right approach - either you start with some massive amount of data that's not quite adapted to the problem (think Google), you start with full automation and have to basically write the decision tree yourself, or you generate the appropriate labeled training data like this.

However, it seems like there are some scale issues if you start upmarket like Clara Labs has been. I wonder if there's benefit in having a cheaper more mass-market version as well that can be used to generate larger amounts of data and test algorithms better?

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The student hackathon movement has definitely evolved super quickly in the last five years (as Swift says, 5 -> 150, or more than 100% growth year over year). I'd be curious to hear more stats about how hackathons in general have grown in the same time period.