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Qualtrics
Company blog · qualtrics.com/engprogrammingbusiness
Qualtrics is the company blog at qualtrics.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2014, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (21) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links Qualtrics mainly for its careers pages in 'Who is hiring' threads, plus product and customer pages for its experience management and survey tools. Comments cite these as references rather than discussing writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 21 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Simulate customer and employee experiences before they happen, predict what comes next, and take intelligent action that drives better outcomes.
What Hacker News says?
Qualtrics | Senior Front End Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer | Seattle, WA, https://www.qualtrics.com/careers/ We help customers identify experience gaps and take action to close them. An experience gap is the difference between the expected and actual user experience. We are working on very interesting problems, from a product and technical standpoint. You are guaranteed to feel your impact on customers. Here…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Scalability != Efficiency: and what part of this is essential to our careers as a story · 7 points
HN discussionQualtrics | SDM, Senior Front End Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer | Seattle, WA, https://www.qualtrics.com/careers/ We help customers identify experience gaps and take action to close them. An experience gap is the difference between the expected and actual user experience. We are working on very interesting problems, from a product and technical standpoint. You are guaranteed to feel your impact on customers.…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted Indexing Text for Both Effective Search and Accurate Analysis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionQualtrics | SDM, Senior Front End Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer | Seattle, WA, https://www.qualtrics.com/careers/ We help customers identify experience gaps and take action to close them. An experience gap is the difference between the expected and actual user experience. Day in the Life at Qualtrics Seattle: http://bit.ly/2QNhVK0 The Digital Experience team mission is to reduce friction to engage with connec…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted How to Think Full-Stack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionQualtrics | Seattle or Provo | Full Stack Developer | Java, Javascript, Angular, Node.js, Go, Scala, Galera, PHP, MongoDB, MySql, redis, memcache, Cassandra, etc.. | Full-time, ONSITE | https://www.qualtrics.com/careers/ TLDR; If you want a lot of growth opportunities and a like to work in a transparent culture, come join us! 80% of CEO's believe they are delivering a superior experience but 8% of customers agree. T…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted Integrating into Qualtrics: Docker Deployment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionQualtrics | Senior Front End Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer | Seattle, WA, https://www.qualtrics.com/careers/ We help customers identify experience gaps and take action to close them. An experience gap is the difference between the expected and actual user experience. We are working on very interesting problems, from a product and technical standpoint. You are guaranteed to feel your impact on customers. Here…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted 5 Things You Should Know About Net Promoter Scores as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIn a way actually! The things that are hard to A/B test get neglected. If you need A/B testing (ie: data) to make any decision, then places where data is purely qualitative - there will be no data to be had and therefore no decision can be made. The Expedia example really comes to mind too of micro-optimizations and everyone working towards their own org's goal can all make sense individually, but really fail when t…
Comment linking /blog/upstream-thinking-saved-expedia-millions/
on “Amazon's Silent Sacking”Qualtrics | Seattle,WA | Full Time I'm part of a small team of 20 engineers and growing at Qualtrics-Seattle. We're currently working on a scalable data visualization platform call Vocalize or Voice of the Customer http://www.qualtrics.com/vocalize/ . This product takes data from Qualtrics' Research Suite platform (industry leading survey platform) and provides actionable information for our clients. Some of the tou…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)”Qualtrics | SDM, Senior Front End Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer | Seattle, WA, https://www.qualtrics.com/careers/ We help customers identify experience gaps and take action to close them. An experience gap is the difference between the expected and actual user experience. Day in the Life at Qualtrics Seattle: http://bit.ly/2QNhVK0 The Digital Experience team mission is to facilitate engagement with online use…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”Qualtrics | Software Engineers | Seattle, Mexico City, Krakow | Full-Time | Hybrid | http://qualtrics.com/ Qualtrics is the leader in experience management, helping businesses improve customer, employee, product, and brand experiences through AI-driven insights and real-time feedback. Here are the roles available: Senior Engineer https://www.qualtrics.com/careers/us/en/job/6127911/Senior-S... Staff Software Engineer…
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)”> we need to assume that the survey was done of reviews.org visitors. That's pretty unlikely. Reviews.org likely engages one of many vendors (like Qualtrics[1]) that will solicit responses online for a survey you design and provide to them through their survey building tool. [1] https://www.qualtrics.com/research-services/online-sample/
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on “The average American spent 2.5 months on their phone in 2024”Welcome to the "360 degree review": https://www.qualtrics.com/qualtrics-360/360-degree-employee-... I wish I had made it up to tweak your nightmare but it is reality at quite a few sucky companies.
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on “What happens over time if each year I fire all my below average programmers?”https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iuRbDBAqyFY&t=9s&pp=2AEJkAIB https://www.qualtrics.com/marketplace/vanwesterndorp-pricing... https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Pricing-Man-Affects-Every... https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Tactics-Pricing-Growing-Prof...
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on “Is Lovable getting monetization wrong?”Hiyo. Cofounder of Statwing (YC S12) here. We make an easy-to-use statistical analysis tool, and we were acquired by Qualtrics in 2016 (and rebranded as "Stats iQ").[1] There's a lot of situations where I could imagine preferring to analyze data in SPSS or Python or something (e.g., complicated transformations, exact same analyses run routinely, advanced analyses that we can't do yet). But, to my mind, ideally you'd…
Comment linking /iq/stats-iq/
on “SurveyMonkey S-1”I think that one thing the pandemic has demonstrated is that groups of experts are just as prone to groupthink as non-experts. Thomas Kuhn may argue that they are even more prone to groupthink. Yet we've also seen intelligent non-experts rise to the occasion. An entrepreneur like Balaji Srinivasan who was sounding the alarm about how serious this was a month or two ahead of public health officials and was mocked for…
Comment linking /news/national-covid-education-dashboard/
on “Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says”SAP is not paying for the product here. SAP is paying for the long list of customers using and relying on Qualtrics today [1], many of whom are Fortune 500 and government agencies. [1] https://www.qualtrics.com/uk/customers/
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on “SAP’s Sales Army Still Doesn’t Justify an $8B Deal”https://www.qualtrics.com/experience-management/customer/wha... is another standardized alternative, that I suspect would suffer less from the problems in the article.
Comment linking /experience-management/customer/what-is-csat/
on “NPS doesn’t say anything particularly useful”I'm not familiar with the laws of Sweden, but a quick Google search suggests there is a law on the books limiting the workweek to 40 hours. Even if that is only marginally-heeded, it's leaps and bounds ahead of the United States. If Swedish residents can work fewer than 40 hours at their discretion, why is it you think most in your circle do not take advantage of this? Qualtrics released the results of a survey rece…
Comment linking /blog/four-day-work-week/
on “Quitting the Rat Race”There was a lot of discussion in the early days of the pandemic about “immunity passports” (also called “immunity certificates”), which would allow individuals who had recovered from COVID-19 to live with fewer restrictions than others. Some proposals were limited to more high-risk situations--for example, an eldercare facility might require immunity certificates for its employees.[1] That conversation was derailed…
Comment linking /blog/americans-seek-covid-infection-for-immunity/
on “Show HN: Analyze Covid-19 immune passports self-infection data – Statwing YC S12”Direct link to study, including the questions asked and responses: < https://www.qualtrics.com/news/gen-x-created-tech-culture-bu... >
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on “Gen X employees are losing interest in the tech workplace culture”Feedback button. https://www.qualtrics.com/experience-management/customer/web... https://www.qualtrics.com/m/assets/wp-content/uploads/2024/0...
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on “Ask HN: Preferred feedback mechanism?”>Does anybody know some interesting practical applications of PCA? Not sure how "interesting" you'll find it, but PCA (and more generally, Factor analysis[0][1]) has been used for decades analyzing data from market research surveys. Much of the process behind this analysis dates back to the late 1960/early 1970s at advertising agencies (notably Grey Advertising[2]) and market research suppliers like Grudin/Appel/Hal…
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on “A tutorial on Principal Components Analysis [pdf]”
