Hard work and fun - Anonymous employee Zillow Employee Review
4.0
Nov 5, 2014
Anonymous employee
Current employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Good income potential, great people. Very generous with lunches, contests. Annual trip to Seattle for Xmas party. Perfect fit for me.
Cons
Lots of turnover, managers tend to manage numbers not people. A lot of rah rah motivation in lieu of finding out what actually motivates the individual.
Zillow Response
11y
Thanks for reviewing your experience at Zillow.
I run the Inside Sales organization at Zillow and wanted to address your concerns:
• There is turnover in the Inside sales department and we're always striving improve the success rate through the hiring process, training efforts and our day to day management of our people.
• If we can improve your experience at Zillow in terms of your growth and development, I want to know about it so please reach out to me directly.
• We do a lot to motivate people and that does include meetings which strive to pass along great customer feedback and sales success stories - all with the intent to make our folks genuinely excited to present advertising opportunities to real estate agents.
Doug Slotkin
Dougs@zillow.com
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).