Pros
Fully stocked kitchen and a modern, trendy office.
Cons
If you're looking for a job that makes you feel appreciated, useful, or that you are doing something of importance, this is not it. Almost every employee is a recent college graduate who is so new to the workforce that they don't recognize how underpaid or undervalued they are, and that is what the managerial team relies on. The job descriptions online are vague for a reason and that's because Houzz does everything they can to hide the fact that this office is a call center. You'll be told that all they want is for you to be happy here and that the culture of the company is their biggest focus but the truth is that your value directly relates to the number of sales you make and nothing more. Everything is filtered through the top 3-4 people at Houzz who are too self-involved to ever recognize their employees are unhappy and are too inexperienced to ever make any sort of positive change. Most managers below them are inexperienced, have no formal managerial training, and have no real power in any decisions- even those directly related to their team members. The top 3-4 managers try their best to maintain the "illusion" of Houzz in that the culture is the most important part and everyone here is extremely happy but that only exemplifies the disconnect even further. Finally, their product is failing. It simply does not work like it use to but management is still insisting that impossible sales goals need to be met. When an employee is struggling, they are not encouraged and motivated in a positive way but rather are passive aggressively scolded and threatened and made to believe they are the sole problem. Sadly, this review will probably be buried immediately by suspiciously similar 5-star reviews within a few days. That just means the typical group of happy employees received their cue from management to go in and leave another positive review to bury the bad ones. To anyone looking to apply at Houzz, my advice to you is to listen to the negative reviews. They are the most accurate description of what the 500 employees of this company experience on a daily basis.