Best company culture - Anonymous employee Zillow Employee Review
5.0
3 Sept 2020
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 1 year
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
-Even in a pandemic, Zillow takes employee needs into consideration.
-Hefty balance sheet to weather changes in real estate and overall uncertainty
-Very focused on equity and belonging , and educating employees
-Open minded, creative and exciting place to work!
Cons
Being required to come into the office used to be a con, but Zillow has announced that there will a possibility that most jobs might work from home indefinitely, so nothing else to add here.
Zillow Response
5y
COVID - 19 has taught us that culture doesn't just happen within the walls of our organization. And we've come to realize that for many employees working from home is where they do their best work. Communication and feedback becomes more important than it's ever been. Thanks for sharing your feedback here. We are listening. -VP, Recruiting
Generally the people I work with are great. They are supportive, creative, and work well as a team.
Work-life balance is good, although some teams have more on-call than others.
Cons
- Senior leadership has determined that inflation need not be a factor when calculating raises.
- Also, we're having record profitability! But also money is very tight and we all need to tighten our belts.
- Our stock is down 50% this year, but you all need to suck it up, even though stock is a huge part of pay.
- We don't care that you are getting a 30% effective pay cut this year.
- Performance ratings are calculated on vibes before reviews are actually written.
- We've started outsourcing heavily to Mexico and India.
- "We need to raise the bar" ("Please work harder for the same pay")
- Health benefits have eroded for several years.
- Other benefits have never been adjusted for inflation.
- AI is becoming like a cult. We've actually been told that the dream is to never open a code editor again, despite the technology not being remotely ready for that (and with no proof that it is less expensive or saves time).