Truliaholic and Trulia offshoring
Truliaholic lets you compare search traffic on their site between markets.
It’s interesting to see that in their home market of San Francisco Seattle beats them in traffic:
It’s also interesting to see that Trulia is offshoring, Technical Manager - Offshore Solutions:
Trulia is looking for an experienced technical leader, reporting directly to the VP of engineering, to drive and manage our offshore development team in India (currently 8+). The team is primarily responsible for our content acquisition technology and other selected development projects, which represent the foundation of Trulia’s exploding success.
We tried this at one time in Redfin’s history, found it to be unsuccessful. Now all our development is done from Seattle and San Francisco. Giving us the best of both worlds.
Of course Trulia is also looking for local engineers. We’ll need to post a similar top 10 list for working at Redfn. Our #10 would be that we have a XBox 360 with Rockband hooked up to our main conference room projector.