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Wealthfront hosts October’s Femgineer Forum

October 24, 2013

We were really happy to host this month’s Femgineer Forum here in our office. Karen Catlin gave her insightful presentation on how to create and maintain one’s “street cred”: ways to document your successes and help people find out about your strengths whether it be in the open source community or on LinkedIn. The line… Read more

Engineering Display Hack Day

October 17, 2013

What do we do when we have eight large TVs in the office driven by Mac Minis and a need to put our finger on the pulse of the business? We hold a hack day for the displays! We allocated a Friday to seeing what interesting visualizations and summaries we could put up on the… Read more

Marketside chats #2: Options for non-dummies

October 08, 2013

This article will explain some common misconceptions about options, using some simplifications. (1) It is not applicable to typical startup call options. (2) A call option allows you to buy a stock at a specified strike price by a specified expiration date. For a put option, replace ‘buy’ with ‘sell’. An option can be thought… Read more

Building your street cred — A career forum for women in tech hosted by Wealthfront

September 23, 2013

You’re invited to join Wealthfront and Femgineer for an evening of professional connections, lessons on “street cred,” great presenters, and food. Lots of food. Wealthfront is proud to host October’s Femgineer forum on the topic of Street Cred on Tuesday, October 22nd at 6pm in Palo Alto, CA. Femgineer co-founder Karen Catlin will discuss “Street… Read more

Joining Wealthfront as a new college graduate

September 13, 2013

The First Day On my first day as a backend engineer at Wealthfront I received an overview of our architecture by one of our engineers. During the overview I realized I would be working with several technologies and flow patterns with which I was completely unfamiliar. Fortunately for me, Wealthfront was forward thinking in choosing… Read more

Functional CSS (FCSS)

August 20, 2013

We’re big fans of functional programming at Wealthfront. Emphasizing immutability and functional style means fewer “surprises” because side-effects are limited or nonexistent. We can quickly build up large systems from discrete, focused components by way of composition. Applying such principles is straight forward in most languages, even if they’re not functional by definition, but the… Read more