Realtor.com Software Engineer reviews

CIO promises a "quality first" philosophy, but leads an environment that favors quick blue-sky promises and brittle low-quality code over experienced engineering that produces quality designs and systems. The company's technology "replatforming" of 2009-2010 was performed by an engineering team completely new to the company's websites and needs, completely shut out all engineers who did know the existing systems and products. The result is a set of severely over-complex, expensive, very difficult to maintain systems that don't satisfy anyone's needs without a lot of frustrating hacking, but which management continues to advertise as the agile new platform. Interoffice politics and management's refusal to recognize and address these problems continue to demoralize the working environment for many engineers, especially many loyal long-timers (some of whom have been with Move for 10-15 years) in the Westlake Village office, many of whom have left Move during 2010-2011. What remains is a terrible demoralizing working environment for engineers in the Westlake Village office, and disorganized chaos in the others.

Move's biggest problems are its inter-office politics, and the failure of executive management to rein this in, as well as the management's inability to actually implement the ideals it espouses. The result is a constant requirement to play "cover your [behind]" to make sure you cannot be blamed if project goes over schedule, as it inevitably does. Teams in other locations were also unwilling to listen to advice and/or constructive criticism, meaning that they had to invent the wheel all over again and learn the hard way. This happens repeatedly, and the executives continue to bury their heads in the sand.