Don't Do It - Anonymous Zillow Employee Review

2.0
Oct 11, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Some great coworkers. Excellent health insurance coverage and parental benefits.

Cons

If you are beginning your career at Zillow and growing within, expect to be perpetually underpaid and never rightsized. Zillow classically "grows" their employees by giving them additional responsibilities or even completely new roles without formal promotions or pay raises for months. Once those promotions do occur, compensation is nowhere near what they would hire an external employee with the same skills. Leadership is nonexistent. Nothing but posturing, grandstanding. The "incredible culture" is a farce and purely for show. The executive leadership team is comprised of bullies with unchecked ego and arrogance and they are largely incompetent. Zillow is constantly attempting to iterate new ideas with shockingly little thought or intention resulting in the dissolution of teams left and right, hence the colossal failure of Zillow Offers. You will not have a voice at this company, you will not be compensated equitably, you will not even be treated with respect, you will simply be a cog in the floundering machine that is Zillow.

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5.0
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Very collaborative team, encouraging team members and managers. Great experience overall.

Cons

Because most people work remote, sometimes it can be hard to meet immediately to chat.

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Zillow Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience as an intern at Zillow. We’re glad to hear that your team felt collaborative and supportive, and that your managers helped create a positive environment overall. We also appreciate your perspective on remote work and the challenges that can sometimes come with connecting quickly in a distributed environment. Feedback like yours helps us continue improving how teams stay connected through Cloud HQ.
3.0
May 8, 2026
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Pros

You can make good money here.

Cons

In sales, job can change often. For example: I was making good money and excelling because I am a relationship Sales person. Then they changed it to where you get the sale, and instead of being able to grow that account via that relationship you just broke into, you have to pass it to an account manager and go back to cold/robo calling. You "book" of business you recive to prospect from is a lottery. I received a book of prospects/accounts that most of the were low income, or senior living properties. They don't have a budget and have a line of renter on a waitlist. No way to convince them to spend money on advertising but you still have the same quota.

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Zillow Response
2w
Thank you for sharing such a detailed perspective. We understand that frequent changes to roles, account ownership and business priorities can have a real impact on relationship-building and the day-to-day experience in sales. We’re glad to hear compensation was a positive part of your time at Zillow, and we appreciate you being candid about where the model and structure felt frustrating. Feedback like yours helps us better understand how these changes are experienced across teams as the business evolves.
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