Petricek: eHarmony has fewer than 10 people on machine learning
Vaclav Petricek · Vaclav Petricek, eHarmony // Data Driven NYC 19 // October 2013 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 20:03
Vaclav Petricek, Director of Machine Learning at eHarmony, breaks down the company's headcount and team structure across technology, matching, and data science.
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“Ah, so eHarmony has about 200 people in Santa Monica. We have a few offices around the world, and in terms of technology, we have about 50% tech, but still, like, a lot of people are building the site, infrastructure, and so on, so matching is about twenty-ish people, but that still includes even people who are, ah, working on the infrastructure scaling, delivering the matches every day. So we have about, like, Below 10 people who are working on this product side, on the machine learning, you know, data science and statistics.”
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