Zillow Software Developer reviews

The company has a policy where if you make an internal transfer to a different team or department with a more lucrative field they're not going to increase your salary. Let's say you make a move from senior customer service to a software engineering role and have to take a small step down in job leveling. Even entry level software engineers make on average more than a customer service advocate, but HR will reason that due to your "lack of experience" you won't get a salary increase. If you make a lateral move, it is the same thing. The company will push back as hard as they can to under pay you while they spend over hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring in external candidates. I believed HR when they gave me this reasoning and was underpaid by over 50k a year because I trusted them. This didn't just happen to me but to other teammates as well. It's company policy. During an internal mobility workshop, someone asked if ZG will atleast compensate successful transfers with salaries that match with their roles market value. The response was "we try to make the best offer right off the bat and maybe will negotiate depending on the case." This essentially is a big fat no.

Tech stack a little bit legacy