Trulia reviews

3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(305 total reviews)
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Rich Barton

60% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Trulia has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 305 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Trulia employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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305 reviews
1.0
Mar 13, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

-Benefits are great -Sales training is useful to people who are new to sales -Some nice people

Cons

There are a lot of problems within this sales organization. Rising quotas that have little logic or reason and management offer little explanation as to why. Micro-management is increasing every day to get more out of their reps (more results for less or equal pay). Really the worse part about this job is the product. Trulia does an excellent job of talking up their products. In reality their products are completely miss leading towards the agents they sell to. Across the company they have about a 25% retention rate because of the poor results. This is mainly cause by over saturation of paying agents within major markets. All the good markets have been sold out a long time ago, so you are force to sell small junk markets to agents that will never see a return on their investment. You will constantly hear from management that Trulia is ranked #1 return of investment in the industry based on an article from Citi Financial. You will never find this article; it was only mentioned in a small blog post with no citation. Personally if you are going to use this "fact" as a staple in your sales culture, it would be nice if it was true.

2.0
Mar 10, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

40 hours a week, not an hour more or less. Good people at the office, easy to meet and make friends. Awesome training and support if you're new to sales. If you're happy talking on the phone all day for very LOW OTE, then this is a good start.

Cons

Where to start? Since we've gone public, making money is virtually impossible. Each month the quotas double, but the payout remains the same. Because you're getting paid hourly, commissions (bonus) each month gets taxed at 40%! If you hit quota, you can expect to make $1350. But what do you end up with after taxes? $800. Given that 50% of the floor did not hit quota last month, you will decelerate very quickly from that amount. A 24k base with this kind of commission is ridiculous. You will have to have a phenomenal year to break 40k. Don't let their company culture fool you into thinking people are happy. Their top sales rep has already left. This company values short term gain over long term sustainability. They reward sales reps for setting agents up with bad programs that don't do anything for their business. I've sold over 80 agents. I can count on one hand the real estate agents who are genuinely satisfied with the product.

1.0
Mar 10, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Snacks, ping pong, happy hour every day. That's about all I have to say bout that... Other than I like the snacks!

Cons

This company caps and decelerates commission, so there's no way to make money. They also are ignoring the major issues that would accelerate the growth of the company. Being on the sales floor there gives you the feeling that the managers have no clue what they're doing... It's confirmed when you talk to them. For a real estate website they sure don't seem to know much about real estate. That transfers to the sales floor where the sales people are most effected because Trulia can't figure out how to make their salespeople happy. Trulia says that they have an open door policy, and when Management is approached with an issue, they tell their people "if you don't like it, quit." Like I was. It's even well-known at the company that the leaders of the sales department don't care about their employees, and it's well known on the floor that if you're not a top 10 salesperson, the leaders of the sales department don't want to know you, by saying things like "I don't even want to know your name if you're not top 10.". Great. I can't be sure, but I'm sure the moves they have been making lately would be called Attrition.

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