Tag: 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 …

Congrats to you, dear survey designer. You’ve finished creating your survey. Your i’s are dotted, t’s are crossed, you’ve added “Other” as an answer choice and gotten rid of those pesky matrix questions. So now you’re ready to choose a collector …

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 …

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When you send your survey to a targeted group of respondents using SurveyMonkey Audience, now we automatically provide five pieces of demographic data directly into your survey results: gender, age, educational level, household income, and the US …

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, …

Back when you were in school, most math problems had one correct answer, and you could prove if you were right or wrong.  But many real-world problems are messy and don’t have one right answer, or an obvious best answer. …

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 …