Stopping rules are what make most frequentist (a.k.a. classical) statistical tests valid. Unsurprisingly, they tell you when to stop an experiment, and equally unsurprising, they are rules that must be followed in order to get statistically valid experiments from statistical tests that depend on them. However, despite stopping rules being critical to the interpretation of […]
When I started at Credit Karma, it was my first internship outside of Toronto. As a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo, I have the opportunity to complete six internships; Credit Karma has been my third. So having done this two times before I had learned one very important thing: what you get […]
Summer started, class was over, and I had begun a 10-week journey with Credit Karma. Intern life was great: there’s free food, a foosball table, the sights and sounds of the city. However, the main point of an internship is to solve a problem, and in order to solve problems, you need to know how […]
As you are conducting your interview, you need to give the interviewee a chance to answer a question well. Here is a high level walk through of how to bring a candidate to the best answer they have. Our philosophy at Credit Karma is to get candidates comfortable. That is how they will be when […]
Working at a fast growing company while tackling high visibility, cross-functional projects can be challenging to navigate as an engineer. Teams easily become siloed. Knowledge and expertise can be slow to spread among many groups. The rapid growth and blurring of interactions between tools and services drive us to collaborate more so we can innovate […]
We’ve made major changes to how we build the web UI at Credit Karma – and we’re still going. Over the past year, we’ve rebuilt the site in ReactJS and Redux and launched new experiences on both desktop and mobile web, using single page architecture. Our revised frontend technology stack includes ReactJS, Redux, webpack and […]
At Credit Karma, we’re constantly looking for new ways to provide timely, personalized financial assistance to our members: we help them correct credit report inaccuracies, find the best interest rate on a loan, and even help them file their taxes for free. This vision to become the best personal financial assistant drove us to build […]
Your organization has made a decision to move to a cloud infrastructure from a self hosted or colocated data center. How do you make the move with the future in mind? At Credit Karma, we run our microservices and environments in data centers and multiple cloud environments. Following a cloud agnostic approach gives us flexibility […]
I recently made the switch from Quality Assurance to Development. It’s been awesome. Thanks Credit Karma! It feels great to learn something new, and to work in an environment that encourages learning and growth. I’ve never had a job that made the day go by so quickly. I’ve also never had a job be so […]
Finagle and the move to microservices When serving 60 million members (and counting), there come some interesting scaling challenges. At Credit Karma, we are constantly facing and addressing those challenges to provide our ever-growing member base with a great user experience. As a part of this, we are currently on a path to evolve our […]
