Toxic Work Environment - Engineer Zillow Employee Review

1.0
Sep 10, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home, decent benefits

Cons

Management tends to protect problematic employees instead of addressing long-standing behavioral issues. This can leave team members feeling unsupported when dealing with verbal abuse or toxic behavior. There’s a tendency to prioritize appearances for leadership rather than genuinely solving problems. Employees may feel pressured to provide positive ratings or feedback that don’t reflect reality, and performance management is sometimes used in a retaliatory way. Complaints raised to HR often seem to result in surface-level actions or cover-ups rather than addressing the root cause. Overall, trust and psychological safety are lacking, and accountability is inconsistent.

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Zillow Response
9mo
It’s never easy to read feedback like this, but it’s necessary and we appreciate your honesty. Great management plays a huge role in the employee experience, and your review reminds us that consistency and support still need attention in some areas. If you're open to continuing the conversation, we’d value hearing more at careers@zillowgroup.com. Or, you may report your concern anonymously through AllVoices.

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Thank you for sharing your experience as an intern at Zillow. We’re glad to hear that your team felt collaborative and supportive, and that your managers helped create a positive environment overall. We also appreciate your perspective on remote work and the challenges that can sometimes come with connecting quickly in a distributed environment. Feedback like yours helps us continue improving how teams stay connected through Cloud HQ.
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Cons

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Zillow Response
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Thank you for sharing such a detailed perspective. We understand that frequent changes to roles, account ownership and business priorities can have a real impact on relationship-building and the day-to-day experience in sales. We’re glad to hear compensation was a positive part of your time at Zillow, and we appreciate you being candid about where the model and structure felt frustrating. Feedback like yours helps us better understand how these changes are experienced across teams as the business evolves.
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