Redfin is an innovative concept with a great website, but unfortunately not a great company to work for.
Pros
The benefits are amazing. Great insurance for employees and their entire family is entirely free. Catered lunches. Kitchen is stocked with beer and snacks.
Cons
Redfin as a whole is extremely unorganized. Training is severely lacking for all real estate positions (coordinators, agents and field agents). I was thrown into my position with almost no training and expected to learn on the job, putting client's real estate transactions in jeopardy. Employees are overworked and underpaid. I handled the work of at least 3 people and was not paid for all of my overtime. The work load was much more than I should have been doing, we were short staffed all of the time. Management is unreliable, making a lot of promises that they cannot keep. Glenn (owner) and Scott (VP of Real Estate) talk a lot about their "open door" policy during the interview and orientation/training. In reality, if you do try to come to one of them with your ideas/concerns/problems, they don't want to hear it. There are two separate parts to the Redfin company, the real estate team and the engineers. I can only speak as to how it was working on the real estate team. An engineer may have an entirely different experience.