Popular Brand. Interesting industry. Room for improvement. Great parties. Industry leader. Growing. Diverse workplace. Nationwide. Multiple brands.
Cons
Basically another company that owes it's existence to Google Maps. Its a good company, but there are people doing cooler things with their time. Also, lots of typical tech bro culture and perhaps age bias.
Zillow Response
10y
Thanks for the review. We work hard to make sure that we're solving meaningful problems in the real world. Buying, selling, and renting are all important processes that impact millions of people but they all have plenty of room for improvement. If you have ideas -- even crazy ones -- on how to solve these big problems, I'd encourage you to leverage our quarterly innovation weeks to test them out. We've had a pretty good track record of graduating many of these ideas into projects that impact our millions of users.
We pride ourselves on having and maintaining a diverse workplace. Hiring and retaining employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences drives our innovation and decision-making processes. With regard to your comment on our culture, I encourage you to connect with me or your HRBP to see if there is anything we can do to make Zillow Group an even better place to work. ZG is a Team Sport.
Dan, VP Rentals
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).