Episode 94: Search at Etsy

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Search at Etsy

• What happens when someone enters a search query?
• User Intent
• Indexing
• Embedding
• Running experiments and A/B testing, Long-Term Value (LTV)
• Ranking
• Reasoning & acting on ML results
• Building ML models
• Handling people's sense of style
• Size of team, archetype of an Etsy ranking engineer
• Handling winner-take-all market conditions
• Open Source @ Etsy
• Hiring & roles available
• Interview process
• Intern opportunities

Etsy's Engineering Blog: https://codeascraft.com/
Liangjie Hong: https://twitter.com/hongliangjie