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Employee Spotlight: Stephen Hu, Senior Director, Engineering

Stephen Hu is a highly experienced software engineer with more than 23 years in the industry. He’s an expert at creating top-notch distributed, scalable services for cloud storage and applications…

How Wish Employees Across the Globe Partnered for #WishGives Season of Giving

Here at Wish, we all come from diverse backgrounds with a variety of different motivations, but we agree on one common goal — supporting one another to assist humankind. This is why, for another…

Product Manager Spotlight: Revamping Wish Fashion and Cross-Collaboration

My name is Nicha Wongsuphasawat and I’m a Product Manager on the Consumer Experience team at Wish. I manage the app’s end-to-end category experience. I spent the first half of this year focusing on…

Engineering Exec Paul Zugnoni Talks Rejoining Wish and Leadership Lessons

For this employee spotlight, we’re highlighting Paul Zugnoni, Director of Production Engineering. In rejoining Wish, he brings two decades of infrastructure engineering and operations experience…

Wish Employees Share How They Thrive with Hybrid and Remote Work Options

We spoke to six Wishians to talk about how they embrace a flexible working model.

Wish Strengthens Team with New Hires Across the Organization

Today Wish announced the expansion of its team with the addition of several key hires across the organization. “I am pleased to welcome a number of new senior-level colleagues to Wish. As we continue…

Latin/Hispanic Heritage Month: Celebrating our Differences at Wish

September 15th to October 15th is Latin/Hispanic Month, a celebration and exploration of Latin/Hispanic culture in the United States. Here at Wish, we think it’s a great time to amplify the voices of…

How We’re Celebrating Global TA Day at Wish

On September 7, 2022, Wish is celebrating #GlobalTADay! This event provides an incredible opportunity for us to acknowledge and celebrate the impact and contributions our Talent Acquisition (TA)…

What Does a Brand Protection Manager Do at Wish?

The Brand Protection Team at Wish works tirelessly to help both merchants and users experience a trusted platform that’s free of counterfeit products or infringing product listings. To get a better…

Ecommerce Executive Stacy All Joins Wish as VP of Product Design

Wish is excited to announce that Stacy All joined us as our new VP of Design in June. Stacy has more than 20 years of experience in customer-centered design and user experience, which includes…

How Wish Makes Hybrid and Remote Models Work for Employees

As part of Wish’s flexible work plan, its over 1,000 employees have the option to fully return to the office, work from home, or a hybrid of both. Here, Wish’s Employer Branding & Talent…

Hear the Latest on Wish’s Turnaround Plan Directly From the CEO

Got a few minutes? Check out Wish’s recently launched vlog series, ‘Inside Wish’ featuring CEO, Vijay Talwar. Launched with the goal of highlighting efforts around the company’s turnaround plan…

Trustworthiness is vital to A/B testing

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What Does a Product Manager Do at Wish?

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The People Behind Wish: Employee Spotlight with Erin Brusseau

For this employee spotlight, we’re highlighting Erin Brusseau, Director of Content Moderation Operations. Erin lives in Chicago, IL with her partner, Ian, her son, Leo, and their two cats, Moo (short…

Anomaly Detection at Scale

Last summer, I did my co-op at the centralized data science team at Wish as a Data Scientist intern. I was assigned to work on a high-impact project, called anomaly detection. I never thought that an…

Inspiring Women in STEM: Q&A with Akshayaa Govindan, Product Manager, Wish

In recognition of Engineering Week, which runs from February 20–26, we’re spotlighting Akshayaa Govindan, a Product Manager on the Merchant & Logistics team at Wish. Akshayaa, who resides in Toronto…

The Improvement of Our Randomization Algorithm

We published a new online experimentation study — Assign experiment Variants at Scale in Online Experiments. Randomized control experiment (A/B testing) is widely taken as the gold standard for…

5 lessons I learned as an intern transitioning to a full-time UX writer

After three months of interning at Wish, I transitioned to full-time as a UX writer. Now that I have more of a grasp working full-time, I’m thrilled to share a few lessons I learned along the way…

Online Experimentation Studies from Wish Part I

We recently have published our first online experimentation study — an A/B testing methodology for percentiles. Here, we provide a summary of the study. For more details, please refer to our blog…

Horizontally Scaling Prometheus at Wish

We’ve been running Prometheus at Wish for two and a half years now. One of the things we’ve learned during this time is that scaling Prometheus in a way that fits the needs of your environment isn’t…

katalog-sync: Reliable Integration of Consul and Kubernetes

Consul is a well-known and widely used service discovery mechanism. Here at Wish, we have standardized on using consul as our service discovery system for quite some time. Although k8s has a built-in…

Valuable Lessons From My Internship at Wish

Since late August, I’ve had the privilege of working as a product design intern on Wish’s Platform team. From pushing pixel-perfect mockups on Sketch to communicating design rationale to…

Wish is Hiring Growth Market Managers!

The Wish app, although started in the United States, is global by design and is now utilized in 70+ countries! We know that different markets around the world have unique needs and aim to make our…

Growing a Growth Team

What is a growth team? Growth can mean a lot of different things at different organizations. At Wish, growth is a mission-based, multi-functional team. It’s a collaboration of marketing, creative…

Wish Hosts a Design Workshop

Here at Wish, design is essential to our business. Designers are encouraged to share inventive ideas and pursue them from concept to completion. As discussed in our last post, employees at Wish make…

Ready, Set, Go — Making an Impact in Your First Few Months at Wish

With so many tech companies and tech workers in the Bay Area, it would be easy to get lost in the fold at another company. This is not the case at Wish, where each one of our 350 employees makes a…

Building The Analytics Team At Wish Part 4— Recruiting

And finally, we’ll end with a section on hiring. I’m going to share our philosophy on recruiting and how to find strong candidates. At Wish, we’re still in growth mode. For hiring this teams that if…

Building The Analytics Team At Wish Part 3— Scaling Data Analysis

The data infrastructure is only as useful as the people using it. In this section, we’ll talk about how to build an equally strong analyst team. In the beginning, all we had time for on the data…

Building The Analytics Team At Wish Part 2 — Scaling Data Engineering

Now that the infrastructure is rebuilt, in part 2 we’ll talk about how to build and manage a high performance data engineering team. On one end is the traditional data engineering team, where the…

Building The Analytics Team At Wish

When I first joined Wish two and half years ago, things were going well. The Wish app had reached top positions on both iOS and Android app stores, and was selling over two million items a day. Very…