Zillow Reviews

Pros

Good people and easy to make friends

Cons

Management not nice and on career path

Advice to Management

be nice

Pros

I love working at Zillow. Great company with great benefits.

Cons

Some of the perks have been declining over the years, but its still a great place to be.

Pros

The culture here is great!! Work hard and the benefits come along with it.

Cons

There has been a lot of movement in the executive level so that is always a little nerve racking.

Advice to Management

Please keep the lights on!!

Pros

talented people to work with, strong leadership, development paths

Cons

okay technology infrastructure, top heavy

Pros

Competitive Salary, good culture, care about employees, solid work-life balance

Cons

Recently tightened costs, mostly a positive, but at times a detriment.

Pros

Great culture, benefits, and people. Zillow is absolutely the best place I've ever worked I enjoy coming to work everyday!

Cons

I do not have any cons so far.

Pros

Great leadership under Spencer Rascoff, though since then I know a lot has changed. They had a great way of getting the entire company behind important initiatives.

Cons

Long time employees were gatekeepers for decision making. They advertised ability to move around in company, but didn't really enable it.

Advice to Management

Would have loved more opportunity to explore parallel career paths.

Pros

Great pay and benefits, excellent tools, free snacks and coffee, good healthcare and stock options. Corp app infrastructure is solid. People are usually helpful and supportive when you have questions even across orgs.

Cons

Zillow 2.0 is driving people far too hard. There is a tangible change at the company toward tighter budgets, which has resulted in significantly more workload per person without wanting the spend on appropriate staffing levels. (While the equity and belonging team is doing great) I also feel more expendable as Zillow 2.0 moves forward. Despite transparency being a core value, management in my org makes major personnel decisions without opening positions to the whole org, causing employees at other sites to be left behind and the whole process to become very political and unfair. Transparency is only valued on a technical level, not a people level in my org. Politics have frequently influenced decisions about major systems changes, and when to spend budget even when the equipment is badly needed.

Advice to Management

Stay focused on the long term and don't let short term targets change major decisions. Refocus on the core values. Improve transparency in promotion opportunities across the org. Be aware of the stress of Zillow 2.0 and how it is affecting existing staff.