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      3.4

      54% would recommend to a friend

      (2,507 total reviews)
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      Jeremy Wacksman

      57% approve of CEO

      46% positive business outlook

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      Zillow has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,507 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Zillow employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      3K reviews
      4.0
      Jun 16, 2014

      Great work culture and awesome company to work for

      Software development engineer
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      Pros

      Company culture is one of the big reason, I like working here. Smart people all around and you feel like going to work everyday, which wasn't the case at my last job. Management empowers engineers to innovate and ample freedom to experiment. You will be surprised how transparent the company is; you can walk up and talk to anyone from CEO or CTO.

      Cons

      Base salary could be higher, but I guess we are paying the price for other incentives. Sometimes I feel that there is lack of engineering challenges given the nature of business, and I feel my talent is underutilized.

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      Zillow Response
      11y
      Thank you for the review. I'm glad you're enjoying your experience at Zillow, and that you appreciate the transparency with which we run the company. I was a little bummed that you're not feeling technically challenged enough though! I hope that we get some more challenging work in front of you soon. There is no shortage of meaty problems that we still need to solve!
      5.0
      Jun 15, 2014

      An amazing 5 months

      Senior software development engineer
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      Pros

      What's better than a job that provides 3 weeks of vacation? A job that provides 3 weeks of vacation, plus 2 'hackweeks' in the year, where you get to team up with anyone else and let your creativity run wild. (I'd even trade one of my vacation weeks for an extra hackweek). To top it off, it doesn't hurt spending the remaining weeks innovating with dedicated and motivated teammates. In five months here, I've had a chance to work on a pivotal feature, win at hackweek, and know that the senior folks are listening if I need them to. Zillow places a lot of emphasis on culture and looks for ways to keep innovating. If you're talented and motivated, consider spending your energy at Zillow, and my experience here so far says you'll get more energized in return.

      Cons

      Some of the legacy code can be challenging to navigate. On the positive side, most dev managers seem to be open to refactoring small chunks of code despite the obvious risks.

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      Zillow Response
      11y
      Thank you for your feedback! I'm really glad that you're having such a great experience here, and in particular that you're finding the work interesting and impactful. As you know, we try to keep our product teams as small as possible and allow them to be as autonomous as possible. This allows for more creativity and for the teams to feel more ownership of their area of expertise. I'm also glad that you like hackweeks so much -- so do I. We have had great experiences with them over the years, and we will definitely continue the tradition.
      3.0
      Jun 11, 2014

      The toughest sales job I've ever had.

      Inside sales consultant
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      Pros

      Lots of perks- free snacks, drinks and gatherings. Benefits package is good and they offer stock as well.

      Cons

      Long hours with no breaks. There's an expectation of 200 calls a day which is made very clear. They hire a ton of sales folks all at once with the expectation that most will quit.

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      Zillow Response
      11y
      Hi, Spencer (ceo) here. You are right that we have very high expectations of our people. We don't however expect that most of our new salespeople will quit! That's definitely not the expectation nor is it our hope! We do a much better job of onboarding and training new salespeople now than we did in the past, though I'm sure we could do better. The biggest challenge for new salespeople is that they don't have any existing clients from whom to draw positive experiences with our product. Once a salesperson gets a few dozen successful clients under his/her belt, then the job gets so much easier. Still challenging, but much easier.
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