Meritocrats, Meet Minorities. - Software Development Engineer Zillow Employee Review

Thank you for taking the time to provide this feedback on your employment with Zillow. I'm sorry you didn't have a positive experience with your manager and didn't feel supported by your skip-level manager and your HR partner. Your experience is not consistent with the feedback we have received formally and informally, through our internal surveys and review processes and with the external feedback systems we monitor. We are proud of the work we are doing to increase diversity within the Engineering team, including senior management positions. I would not label our group elitist or homogeneous, nor do I believe those are terms others would use to describe our team or culture. We recruit from many universities, certainly from what we view as some of the best Computer Science programs in the world, but we mainly hire people based on their skills and ability to work well on a team. Many of our engineers and more than a few of our engineering managers did not complete a pure CS degree in college, but have built up the necessary experience through past jobs and other learning opportunities to be top notch engineers. I'm equally proud of the efforts we have made to the Ada Developers Academy. We were first company to back this effort and have had other successful internship and fulltime hires from this program. We are active in the Women in Engineering efforts in Seattle and San Francisco and are excited to see our % of women in Engineering grow. As an industry, we have a long way to go and we will continue to be strong supporters of Ada and other programs that support diversity. I am disappointed to hear of conversations you heard that do not reflect the values of Zillow and our employees. I believe the ongoing management and employee training we are doing will better equip our employees to support diverse points of view and unbiased engagement among team members. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination or jokes about race, gender or class. If we learn of that kind of behavior, swift action is taken. Again, I don't believe that your experience is representative of the culture we have built over the last 10 years and the company that many have come to love. - David Beitel, CTO