Statistics Is Eating the World
Wealthfront’s culture encourages self-directed engineers and researchers. By doing so we learn faster and make better decisions informed by facts on the ground. While this practice is obvious for startups with a handful of people, scaling up to large teams is challenging. We set out to scale our culture of decentralized learning and decision-making as… Read more
The Case for Object-Oriented JavaScript
JavaScript is a flexible and powerful programming language that drives most modern-day web sites and applications. The jQuery library, in particular, has a simple API for traversing and manipulating the DOM. Just choose a your selector, add an event handler, and voilà! Instant UI magic. The ease of jQuery, though, comes with a price. Without… Read more
Writing JavaScript Tests for Asynchronous Events with Deferreds
A while back, one of our engineers at Wealthfront wrote an in-depth article about deferreds. It’s important that if the functionality you build relies on deferred objects to trigger asynchronous events, that the behavior is properly tested. In this post I will go through 2 simple examples on how to test functionality that uses deferred… Read more
My Internship with Wealthfront
I’m wrapping up my first couple of weeks at Wealthfront, and I’m very confident to say that I made the right decision for my last internship before graduation. On my first week, I was told “Now you know what it’s like to work at a hypergrowth startup company”. I couldn’t agree more with the sentiment,… Read more
Joining Wealthfront as a DevOps New Grad
I started at Wealthfront two weeks ago, and I can already say with little doubt that it was the best opportunity for me. Having taken Andy’s career advice, I was determined to start my career in the Bay Area and wanted to join a mid-sized company with momentum. I had followed the fintech space for… Read more
Security Notice on CCS / CVE-2014-0224
On June 5 another vulnerability in OpenSSL, ChangeCipherSpec (CCS) Injection Vulnerability, was announced. Released as CVE-2014-0224, the advisory warns that nearly all versions of OpenSSL are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. After learning about the CVE-2014-0224 vulnerability, the Wealthfront team immediately deployed an updated OpenSSL library on all customer-facing servers. Further Resources for ChangeCipherSpec Help… Read more