Zillow Rentals, San Francisco, CA

We're building the largest rental housing search network on the web and need to make sure it's solid. We're hiring a software engineer/SDET to lead our back-end testing efforts, building systems to test systems. You'll be an extremely important part of a smart, fast-paced team that's responsible for the data behind the best rental sites on the internet.

http://www.zillow.com/jobs/san-francisco-office/ or email me at davidpe@zillow.com

Zillow Rentals, San Francisco, CA

Our SF office is home to a rapidly growing team that's focused on building the best and largest rental network on the internet. We have quite a few openings for experienced engineers (Database, Android, Test), as well as listing support and marketing.

http://www.zillow.com/jobs/san-francisco-office/ or email me at davidpe@zillow.com

This article is from last November. The Google group response linked from the post https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!topic/pro... implied many performance problems would be fixed within 2 weeks. I wonder how it's improved.

San Francisco, CA - Zillow Rentals & HotPads

We're hiring back end engineers to make rental housing data better.

Please apply here: http://www.zillow.com/jobs/positions/ but also feel free to email me dpeters@hotpads.com

Got in, pressed purchase, got the modal, pressed the pay button, "Your purchase will complete momentarily ...", sat for a while, closed modal, started over x2, tried waiting for 3 minutes, timed out, no pending charges. How annoying.

Same. I suppose this is the lottery everyone is asking for?

yup....Google still hasn't mastered e-commerce.

The same problem plagues the ticket sites when music festival tickets go on sale (TicketMaster, Gigs and Tours, etc.) and also the London Olympics site. No one seems to get it right.

i waited, and finally got a "try again, the payment timer timed out" .. so frustrating

250 * 30,000 = 7,500,000

ah! whoops, one too many zeros (I used $35K) :P

Yes.

Some comment threads are getting very long. Collapse children would help keep these from hiding other worthy top level comments.

Dollars pledged is the metric you ultimately care about, but I'd expect number of pledges to reveal more patterns.

We used to have a computer play a gong noise when we sold something. It was just an email client that got a copy of all the receipts and played a sound when mail came in. That got really annoying so we killed it.

Now we have a physical gong in the office that our sales reps get to bang on. We don't learn from our mistakes.

We used to have emails that got sent to our inbox every time a user converted. But that got annoying during all of the peak times.

I can't imagine a bell or sound happening.