Pros
Zillow has amazing benefits and for the most part seems to genuinely care about employees. I would have given a 5 star rating for Zillow as a whole, but this review is about my time working in Marketing. Also, how ZO was handled has left a bad taste in my mouth.
Cons
Working in Zillow marketing, at times, felt frustrating. The marketing org is super layered, and can feel top heavy. Senior leaders meet frequently to figure out pathways forward, ask the worker bees to implement, then quickly pivot to the next thing, at times leaving the work from the original thing abandoned for the newest shiny object. Also, there is never enough staff at the bottom to accomplish all the important things, yet new senior strategy based positions are always added. The result is there is a bunch of senior leaders constantly trying to justify their value by pushing new things that there isn’t capacity for. It can feel dizzying. Sometimes it feels like we don’t actually do anything, despite all the planning. Sometimes it feels like we barely do any actual work. We sure do talk about it a lot. Of course, this is a view point from someone who may not truly get the big picture.
