Employee Review
- Current Contractor, more than 3 years★★★★★
Redfin is very innovative.
Feb 8, 2023 - Associate AgentRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Redfin is a very innovative company where Associate Agent/Contractors are treated with respect.
Cons
Contractors are truly held at arms length, as is appropriate.
Other Employee Reviews
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Diverse inclusive genuine and great community of colleagues
Cons
Field agents need to be more attentive
- Former Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Great for Experience, not great for pay and work life balance
Feb 8, 2023 - Real Estate Agent in Chantilly, VARecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
You have lots of training. You have managers available anytime to assist. You get customers from the company website. You have an internal CRM that does a good job of keeping track of your clients and prompts you to follow up with them. They have awesome benefits including health insurance and full reimbursement of industry fees. You have a team of associate agents to show houses, hold open houses, etc which allows you to work with more clients. Lots of great people to work with. Their events are incredible with food, drinks and entertainment.
Cons
There is a lot of stress. The company wants you to do a certain amount of transactions per month and they push you hard to get there. There are a lot of unnecessary meetings. You have to do things the company's way, they don't give you a lot of freedom to be successful on your own. They have metrics for everything which could be good, but they emphasize these way to hard, and will focus on a negative metric even when you are successful. While you have an adequate CRM, it is way below what other companies offer. Local management is great but they don't seem to have the ability to make decisions or impact the overall policies.
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