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Access NowWriting a Framework for Custom ETL Automations (pt. 2 of 2)
This is part 2 of 2 on creating a framework for developing custom Extract, Transfer, Load (ETL) automations for Qualtrics clients. In the previous post we talked about the design decisions around ou...
By Dennis Callanan
Writing a Framework for Custom ETL Automations (pt. 1 of 2)
Every customer has their own programs, technologies, business goals and requirements to fulfil. Meeting these requirements often means making our systems work in harmony with theirs through Extract, T...
By Dennis Callanan
Streamlining Chaos to Lead with Intent
Since the advent of cloud computing in 2006, the delivery of software solutions to customers has shifted from a multi-year journey to a daily activity. Tech companies, large and small, are moving fast...
By Ali BaderEddin
Correspondence Analysis: What is it, and how can I use it to measure my Brand? (Part 2 of 2)
In our previous post , Correspondence Analysis: What is it, and how can I use it to measure my brand? (Part 1 of 2), we discussed the uses and benefits of correspondence analysis, and walked through t...
By Jeffrey Hao
Correspondence Analysis: What is it, and how can I use it to measure my Brand? (Part 1 of 2)
Correspondence analysis reveals the relative relationships between and within two groups of variables, based on data given in a contingency table. For brand perceptions, these two groups are brands an...
By Jeffrey Hao
How we interview in Engineering at Qualtrics
At Qualtrics, we work hard to cultivate our engineering culture. As part of our hiring process, we assess whether or not we believe that candidates will make a positive impact on our organization. W...
By Evan Child
Happy Holidays
Every year at Qualtrics, we close the office during the last week of December so our employees can spend time with family, travel, and recharge. This is also around the time we typically wrap up our i...
By John Thimsen
Indexing Text for Both Effective Search and Accurate Analysis
At Qualtrics, Text iQ is the tool that allows our users to find insights from their free response questions. Powering Text iQ are various microservices that analyze the text and build models for every...
By David Norton
Migrating Legacy JS to TypeScript
At Qualtrics nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes, and absurd quarterly growth. Enter TypeScript, a powerful tool for growing JavaScript codebases. I am going to talk about why we cho...
By John Patterson
Docker Exec and Maven AppAssembler
Docker is a powerful tool for defining, building, deploying and running software in containers for self-contained distribution and isolation purposes. AppAssembler is a Maven plugin that is primarily ...
By Ville Koskela
Intern Project: Creating a Global Search using Solr
The Internal Systems team at Qualtrics wants to provide our clients, fellow employees, with an easy way to search through data. This data is in many different formats and has various use cases. Fo...
By Ivan Zaitsev
Don’t Scrap it: Building a QE Ecosystem the Scrappy Way
I joined Qualtrics about two years ago. At the time our Quality Engineering team had 6 people. It has since expanded to about 30. Over the same time period the total number of employees at Qualtrics h...
By Derek Nielsen
Building a Customizable Platform for Sentiment Analysis
Overview On May 12th we launched a brand new Sentiment Analysis tool to the world as part of the Qualtrics Experience Management Platform. We know Sentiment is important for understanding unstructure...
By Martin Mumford
Our Careers: Scalability != Efficiency
The first paper I ever published was at SC2001 and I’ve been working with scalability issues in distributed systems and organizations of all sizes ever since. Over all those years, the one thing tha...
By Scott Larsen
Qvolution, the Qualtrics Hackathon
I’ve been in the technology industry for 20+ years, and in that time, the hackathon has entered the common vernacular that is used in software development. The core idea behind hackathons themse...
By John Thimsen
Maintaining Availability in a $2.5B Company
How We Manage Availability Qualtrics operates and develops products in a service oriented architecture. We went through the same evolution that many large companies go through - build a monolith appl...
By David Gonzalez
One Team, One Community
At Qualtrics, we are one team. This means we collaborate. We teach. We mentor. We learn from one another. When the team wins, we all win, so we’re invested in the growth of our teammates. This p...
By Erin Leonhard
