On the Trulia brand, the management team is not strong. Since the Zillow acquisition, morale has been low among Trulia employees in the San Francisco office. Trulia's management team is aware of it, but aims to suppress information instead of trying to address the problem. Here are two examples:
-Historically, departing employees sent a goodbye email to the entire company. After the Zillow acquisition, employee turnover and goodbye emails increased. Trulia management thought it brought unwanted attention to the fact that many employees were quitting every week, and directed managers to prevent their departing employees from sending goodbye emails.
-Since the acquisition, Trulia's management team has fired numerous employees. This by itself is not necessarily bad, but on multiple occasions the employee's co-workers were never notified, and in an extreme case, people didn't realize for over a week that someone was fired.
