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eNPS Score
Q&A With Zillow Employees
Our people are the top reason employees love working at Zillow Group. Together, we tackle complex challenges and explore uncharted territory. We welcome all ideas and backgrounds, and our award-winning benefits encourage work-life balance, not burnout.
How employees describe working at Zillow
Everyone was super nice and super friendly.
Some of the front line leaders are so real and incredibly hardworking
Variety and options of various properties
some orgs are fun by "leaders" with absolutely NO real world real estate experience. Constant data tracking errors and changing kpi targets monthly. Not worth the constant stress of feeling your job is on the line. 90% performance is considered a low performance in this org.
Putting their people (employees) first, over their stockholders
What it's like to work at Zillow
- Zillow employees generally work 8.6 hrs a day
- Employees at Zillow report the work pace is comfortably fast
- On a typical day, employees at Zillow have 4+ meetings
- 87% of Zillow employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
- Zillow employees most often take unlimited paid vacation and sick days each year
- 88% of Zillow employees report they are happy with their work life balance
- Zillow employees typically get valuable feedback on how to improve at work Every Week
- 84% of Zillow employees call their work environment positive
Q&A With Zillow Employees
IDX: 0 TOT: 75
What's the interview process like at Zillow?
Top Employee Response
2 phone interviews and 3 people in the onsite. They want to know that you can sell and used to have us sell something to them in the interview.
1-2 phone screens, 2-3 tech onsite, 1-2 behavioral
Tech screen, and then 4-5 person onsite interview loop.
What's the office vibe like at Zillow?
Top Employee Response
Over the past 8 months in Seattle things have been becoming less and less fun. Contest prizes don't payout like they used to. Certain regions have it much easier than others.
Open office concept. Highly collaborative, engaging, and most important: fun!
Laid back
How many women are in your team? is it diverse enough?
0
There are 3 female developers on my team (including myself). Zillow has a great ratio and a very welcoming environment.
2. No.
How much and how often do raises happen at Zillow?
Once a year.
every year, as far as i know
every year
How difficult is it to maintain a social life while in your job at Zillow?
work-life balance is important to maintain and so social life is easy to maintain here.
probably the same as any FT job
not that hard
How long after in-person interviews did you get an offer letter?
Top Employee Response
1 day
2-3 days
1 to 2 day
What interview questions does Zillow ask?
Top Employee Response
They ask you to sell them something. They ask what excites you about Zillow. They want to see you've done research on the role.
Varies. Mostly hackerrank or leetcode
Bunch of questions relating to tech.
What are your coworkers at Zillow like?
Top Employee Response
Very intelligent people who love solving extremely hard problems while having a great time doing it. Everyone is inclusive and engaging!
Colleagues are mostly smart
They're great, and fun to be around.
What do you like best about the leadership team at Zillow?
Top Employee Response
The leadership team is very sincere, and lives out the values they talk about.
The leadership team does a great job encompassing Zillow's culture into their management styles.
Hands-on leadership. Lead by example.
What is the best part about your compensation package at Zillow?
Top Employee Response
Great stock benefits along with a competitive base salary make this package very appealing
Highly competitive
It's Competitive and there is always room to grow.
How long do the interviews usually take at Zillow?
4 hours
1 hour
About an hour and a half, or two hours.
How secure do you feel at your job at Zillow?
80% secure
not that secure
average
What's the best part of your job at Zillow?
the people are smart and fun; the perks are generous
people and perks
have the impact
How's the work pace at Zillow?
as fast as you want to make it
as fast or slow as you choose (but there are repurcussions)
slow
What's one thing you wish you'd known before joining Zillow?
how hard it would be working with people younger than me
that everyone would be 20 years youjnger
move not as fast as it looks
What unique perks and benefits does Zillow provide?
Candy wall, music room, game room
Discretionary time off.
good health care, 401k match, commute benefit, unlimited PTO, paid parental and maternity leave
How's the vacation policy at Zillow?
For engineers it's a DTO (Discretionary Time Off) policy, meaning that employees can take as much time as they need, when they need it.
For "exempt" (standard non-commission based f/t) employees, we receive Discretionary Time Off. Discretion of yourself and your manager. There is no strict x number of days, so unlimited so to speak, so long as you get your job done.
vacation policy is DTO for exempt employees
What is most positive about the culture and environment at Zillow?
Top Employee Response
varies by subsidiary
People are good to each other. We live by the core values.
Providing an environment that is encouraging and successful. #winningisfun
What is Zillow's policy towards pets in the workplace?
No pets.
Some offices are dog friendly, like the San Francisco, Lincoln Nebraska, and Vancouver location. Other offices aren't due to landlord restrictions
How do I do well in an interview at Zillow?
Leetcode and hackerank
Look into Zillow's core values, and try to relate to your past experience that matches what the core values represent.
What should I wear for an interview at Zillow?
Casual (but not too casual, obviously).
Zillow is pretty casual on dress code. Its best to wear business casual for engineering interview
How's the morale at Zillow?
Dependends on your team manager, sometimes you get a manager who are apathy to your career progress and keep shifting your goal for promotion. Luckily Zillow if big enough company where you can move around between team and find another manager that can mentor and guide you to your promotion path.
pretty good - not over the top, not low
What's the pay like for Engineering roles at Zillow?
Higher than market (at least in Vancouver).
I'm happy but it's step beneath G, fb, uber, etc
What's the vibe like in the Engineering dept at Zillow? How many hours are you working?
Good vibe. Smart people. Very technically intelligent managers for the most part. Work week is 40-50 hours
around 8 hours
How's the leadership on the Engineering team at Zillow?
Impressively technical for the most part
They are ok. Not scale enough though.
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Should I work at Zillow?
57% of Zillow employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 16% are neutral and 27% would not recommend working at Zillow to their friends.
| 57% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 16% | Passive |
| 27% | Detractors |
