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Catie Corley
7 Words, 7 Journeys: The Wealthfront New College Grad Experience
There’s a common saying that life is a series of opening and closing doors. When you graduate college, you’re handed a master key that unlocks countless doors in your path. This is a pivotal time – that first door you choose to walk through sets the foundation for the rest of your career. Two years… Read more
Eloy Gonzalez
How we standardized MariaDB in our Integration Server
Engineering at Wealthfront is centered on the idea that code should be written to facilitate testing, not the other way around. Without a staging environment to fall back on, we maximize confidence through a sophisticated, multi-layered testing strategy. While unit tests provide our most rigorous line of defense, our Integration Server is the workhorse that… Read more
Matthew Bommer
XcodeGen and the quest to modularize the Wealthfront iOS app
Every iOS application starts as a monolith. Xcode’s default project structure places all source files, resources, and build configuration into a single module (or target, for all the iOS devs reading this). For small apps, this works fine. For a 10+ year old financial application with roughly 2,000 Swift and a handful of Objective-C files,… Read more
Kal Iyer
Unlocking Your Potential: Join the New College Graduate Class at Wealthfront and Set Your Career on a Thriving Path!
As you approach the final year of your university program, you have a pivotal decision coming that will shape your career trajectory. Your first job after graduation can be the stepping stone to a fulfilling and successful journey ahead. And when it comes to propelling your career, Wealthfront is among the best places to learn,… Read more
Andrew Easton
How we updated our Performance Review process to help engineers grow
Performance reviews are often a nebulous topic. All companies do them and they can be incredibly important to growth and success, both personally and professionally. Yet they are often a bit of a black box. At Wealthfront, we believe that one of the core goals of the performance review process is to help engineers grow… Read more
Tommy Shiou
Senior Engineer Archetypes
Wealthfront believes in providing engineers opportunities to have impact so they can grow at a pace that matches their experience. However we have observed several instances where high-performing engineers would step up into senior roles and take on new responsibilities, but then unfortunately become unhappy or unsuccessful. When transitioning into senior engineering roles an individual’s… Read more