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I wish this was true but I suspect it is not. If Facebook can still have excellent engineers because they pay a ton of money, then so can Zillow.
by wussboy 5y ago
I wish this was true but I suspect it is not. If Facebook can still have excellent engineers because they pay a ton of money, then so can Zillow.
- ivanyahoocom 5y agoZillow has always paid low compared to the market. They never got the “top nerds” and this was really a CEO problem. I would never bet on that company on any decently complex technology like predictive models. It took them years to make their model decent, something that a machine learning tutorial does better - just a linear regression on square feet and location. They were literally comparing my house to ones on the other side of the city - comparing a downtown property with outskirts.
- selcuka 5y agoTo be honest linear regression on square feet and location is what potential (human) buyers would mentally use, therefore it's a very, very accurate prediction of the price.