Zillow Senior Program Manager, Technology reviews

Really disorganized, although the technology was in place it wasn't used to advantage. Everything was chaotic and just kind of missed the mark always because it wasn't fully thought out or executed well. CULT-like adoration for the company and co-workers when there wasn't a great team environment at all. I heard people TALK about how great it was but when you needed someone, they were not there. Asking for guidance or how to do something was a lot of deflection (I suspect no one really knows the answers because this happened on all levels and all the time) that people don't have time, always in meetings, it's online just check the help articles out. But that brings it back to the technology. Their internal help articles are a great idea if they are well-thought-out and detailed. If not, it's just something that sounds good but doesn't really help or provide a good resource. Overall it just seemed like a big failed experiment in offering a feel-good workplace that's going to tell you how awesome they are because they sent out a free sweatshirt but don't actually do great work or support their employees where it counts. No work-life balance, at all.

leadership is awful in all orgs from the conversations I've had, nepotism is real and everywhere, managers are mangers from tenure, NOTHING to do with actual leadership skills. My current manager I've had the manage-up the whole time, she is only a manager from tenure - which makes sense because her manager is also a manager from tenure, its a systemic issue at Zillow and it's not going to change anytime soon.