Redfin Reviews

Pros

Team work and support, Benefits are amazing! The company pays for mileage, and any other real estate fees. The health insurance is top notch!

Pros

Leads generated by website; health benefits & expenses reimbursed. Some really good people trying to make this a great place to work. Too bad they're in the minority.

Advice to Management

Start respecting the agents that are the backbone of your organization. Reviews are valuable but you're too quick to throw a good, hard working agent "under the bus" if a customer gives them less than a 8-10 review. Many of your customers are only 2-3 star clients yet you treat them better than your agents. You penalize hard workers and don't respect the years of experience and knowledge many agents have unless they go along with managers and never voice an opinion that's different from yours.

Pros

Great benefits (vacation, 401k, flexible schedule)

Advice to Management

Practice what you preach. Though they indicate they are pro-diversity; their workforce is NOT diverse.

Pros

Love my career, my team mates, my leadership. This is what others try to mimic but this really is a team, laugh hard, work hard, play hard. Support is amazing. Work life balance does exist and I have 3 children still at home. It's up to the individual to make the balance work in any job not just REDFIN.

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you are doing. Management that really cares and spends time with their people.

Pros

Cool company culture, modern offices, free snacks and drinks (when stocked), company provided laptop, work station, and printer, mileage reimbursement, paid cell phone.

Advice to Management

Try to understand where the employee is coming from because we don't always know your way of doing things, refrain from constant criticism and condescending tone.

Pros

You get to open and close your schedule, based on when you want or need to work. This is great as an extra job to get some extra money. Primary Markets pay better than the secondary markets. Great starting place, for a new agent.

Advice to Management

Original Event Pay Scale Returned.

Pros

Many opportunities to expand one's real estate career. Awesome work/life balance and great co workers.

Pros

Everything is so freaking great

Pros

Much like the field of real estate, Redfin is just selling an image. It's certainly not a tech company, it's really just a real estate brokerage with a website. The company is fractured heavily internally, they haven't made profit, the revenue generating machines are agents and commissions, and they haven't innovated or changed the field of real estate as they initially set out to do. They created a website and collected user data, so that's pretty much all they have going for them. Unfortunately, the company is stagnant when it comes to creating a modern work environment, hiring smart people who know real estate, and staying ahead of competition. Much of it can be attributed to the lack of visionaries at the company who can move it forward. Their technology platforms are already appearing dated, and anyone with a brain has left or are leaving. Listening to the CEO and upper mgmt closely during investor meetings and company meetings, there is a sense of uncertainty behind their answers, and their poor business decisions might be catching up with them. Overall, this company will make some money off the website for the execs, and will probably end up a notch below Zillow.

Advice to Management

I would advise cleaning shop and starting over, but it's too late with the competition that's now staring you in the face.

Pros

Strong team commitment, an incredible amount of support, ability to focus on your strongest attributes, the empowerment that comes from the values and culture to really help your clients get the most for their money, fantastic benefits, a never ending flow of new clients.

Advice to Management

Never stop doing what you already do. The commitment to the Agents is second to none.