Good leadership vision and opportunities to grow, a place where good ideas can come from anywhere, get heard and get implemented
Cons
Benefits could be better, e.g., 401k matching, lower deductible health/dental plans
Zillow Response
12y
Thank you for the review, and I'm glad you are having success at Zillow. Regarding your comment that some teams aren't as efficient as they should be, I agree. If you ever have specific suggestions about things we can do to improve that, please send me mail at our "speed" alias, or if you want to send it anonymously you can do that through our ZillowTalkBlog (the internal blog). As you know, I want us to move as quickly as possible. Resources are plentiful; time is scarce.
Generally the people I work with are great. They are supportive, creative, and work well as a team.
Work-life balance is good, although some teams have more on-call than others.
Cons
- Senior leadership has determined that inflation need not be a factor when calculating raises.
- Also, we're having record profitability! But also money is very tight and we all need to tighten our belts.
- Our stock is down 50% this year, but you all need to suck it up, even though stock is a huge part of pay.
- We don't care that you are getting a 30% effective pay cut this year.
- Performance ratings are calculated on vibes before reviews are actually written.
- We've started outsourcing heavily to Mexico and India.
- "We need to raise the bar" ("Please work harder for the same pay")
- Health benefits have eroded for several years.
- Other benefits have never been adjusted for inflation.
- AI is becoming like a cult. We've actually been told that the dream is to never open a code editor again, despite the technology not being remotely ready for that (and with no proof that it is less expensive or saves time).