Category: Engineering

We recently completed our third SurveyMonkey Hackathon, and it was a blockbuster. Almost two dozen teams attempted audacious hacks over 26 hours of caffeinated coding. There were product features, internal tools, and a cool dynamic dashboard of stats for our …

For those of you folks surveying away last night between the hours of 7 p.m. and 2 a.m. PST, you would’ve noticed that you weren’t able to access our site. The technical explanation is that due to a minor bug …

Welcome back to the Code-Monkey Corner! Put on your engineering hats and get ready for our latest installment of engineering exploits from two of our very own hard-working Monkeys, Chandra and Tuyen. They’re here to share how the Engineering team …

For our latest installment from the Code-Monkey Corner, we had a conversation with our amazing Director of Engineering, Will in order to find out more about what his engineering team (they call themselves the Devmonkeys) has been up to this …

Like most high-traffic websites, at the core of SurveyMonkey is a highly-tuned database where we store and protect your survey data. However, the best way to make sure that we can dish out surveys and store your responses quickly, reliably, and …

Recently, we had our second Hackathon here at SurveyMonkey, where my fellow Monkeys were given 24 hours to create a new product or feature of their choosing. During the Hackathon, anything is fair game—including new product features, new internal tools, …

Hey all you tech guys and gals out there. My name is Adrian, and I work on the front-end here at SurveyMonkey. We’re using several open source javascript libraries in development, but we try to write our own code when …

As an engineer here at SurveyMonkey, I have a cool job.  I get to build features such as the suggested questions autocomplete, and I thought I’d share how we built this new feature directly into our Question Builder to make it even …

A few weeks back, several of us codemonkeys participated in PloneCon in San Francisco.  Plone, the software, is an open source content management system built on the grand-daddy of all Python web frameworks: the open source application server Zope.  Though at SurveyMonkey we do …

Howdy folks, Chris Coyier here from the UI team at SurveyMonkey. I worked on Front End Development stuff for Wufoo before our glorious merging. Now that our teams are together out here in the Palo Alto, California office we are …