Don't Do It - Anonymous Zillow Employee Review

2.0
Oct 11, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some great coworkers. Excellent health insurance coverage and parental benefits.

Cons

If you are beginning your career at Zillow and growing within, expect to be perpetually underpaid and never rightsized. Zillow classically "grows" their employees by giving them additional responsibilities or even completely new roles without formal promotions or pay raises for months. Once those promotions do occur, compensation is nowhere near what they would hire an external employee with the same skills. Leadership is nonexistent. Nothing but posturing, grandstanding. The "incredible culture" is a farce and purely for show. The executive leadership team is comprised of bullies with unchecked ego and arrogance and they are largely incompetent. Zillow is constantly attempting to iterate new ideas with shockingly little thought or intention resulting in the dissolution of teams left and right, hence the colossal failure of Zillow Offers. You will not have a voice at this company, you will not be compensated equitably, you will not even be treated with respect, you will simply be a cog in the floundering machine that is Zillow.

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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).

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