Zillow reviews

4.6

92% would recommend to a friend

(1,701 total reviews)
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Jeremy Wacksman

96% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Zillow has an employee rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,701 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Zillow 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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1.0
Jul 31, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office, some opportunity. Lots of opportunity if you are a diversity hire

Cons

White horse business model: they pump leads to a select few loan officers who make substantially more than the average loan officer. The average loan officer thinks they can make that much but Management lies - there’s no work life balance and you are a number just like Loan Depot. You’ll get fired if you work your minimum hours. Even if you go all out and work 7 days a week and be available for their agents all the time, you’ll still only make barely enough to scrape by. You’d be better off taking a salary job somewhere else than work 90 hours a week for $100k here

1.0
Jul 16, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay and was remote.

Cons

Management was terrible complete lack of leadership and operational vision. Toxic environment and leaders who wouldn’t listen to any common sense advice to prevent the downfall of Zillow Offers. Massive layoffs out of the blue with no warning. One second we had a meeting with our new Director because we were without one for over 6 months, where she was saying all kinds of positive things not more than an hour later another meeting where she was telling us that everyone was getting laid off. Absolutely ridiculous, unprofessional and had to sit in another meeting where the CEO was bragging about how amazing things were coming? Why would you talk about that with employees that are being laid off? Lots of racism going on in their so called groups for people like their Asian group I joined being half Asian I thought it would be cool to be apart of it. My very first meeting in the group all I heard was them talking about white people this and white privilege that and how there’s too many white managers etc. I had to leave and never went back to another meeting. That type of talk should not be allowed in the workplace it was supposed to be a place to meet and hangout with other Asians and build a community of friendly like minded people. It turned out to be a place to vent and talk bad about other peoples skin color completely racist and exactly what we wouldn’t want others to do to us? My half white side said this wasn’t for me bye ✌️. After the news of layoffs I tried to move to another department and was looked over and nothing came out of it. Worse part is they started hiring afterwards for the same position? Mind you I was recruited to Zillow and after getting laid off I applied to many other roles and including the same one I had even though they laid all of us and I didn’t even get an interview for any of the 10+ roles I applied to. I believe I was black listed due to my exit interview where I was professional and gave my honest opinions on the situation and how they handled it plus the lack of respect they gave to realtors like myself. Also way too much wokeness as for pronouns etc. very uncomfortable and way too liberal I should not have to change my vocabulary for anyone. Completely one sided when it comes to that part if you’re a strait male who only believes in two genders than you’re toxic especially if you’re white.

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We take feedback in all forms very seriously. At Zillow, we are committed to creating an equitable workplace for all, and we have clear policies to prevent discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We also offer several ways to report issues anonymously, and we investigate all concerns thoroughly. I'd like to learn more about your experience. If you’d like to discuss this with me directly, you can contact me at dans@zillowgroup.com.
1.0
Jun 26, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

This company is really good at selling the Zillow way to new hires. We got to train in Seattle. It was an amazing experience. Great benefits and incentives. They allow you to choose your own work hours. The base pay is pretty decent depending on where you are working from and your tax bracket. You can make some great friends here and the sales managers are really nice.

Cons

Smoke and mirrors folks. We were trained to sell Zillow but came out of training realizing we weren't trained on how to use all 4 platforms you will use to get your account information. Since they trained us on how to sell Zillow PA you would think as new hires our focus was to get comfortable selling in the first month. That was not the case. Our focus was to meet a talk time of seven 2+ minute conversations a day not to sell and get rev. We were not told this until 3 weeks into our first month on the phones. The only reason we were finally told this expectation for our job was because we were already being told we would lose our jobs within the first month for not reaching this KPI. Many reps had closed over 5k but were threatened to be fired over this in less than 1 month on the phones. Although our trainers tried to fight to ban this for us they did not succeed. Matter of fact the GM said "we need fairness across the board". Instead they told all of us (new hires over the past 4 months) thank you for your feedback. Because of our feedback they launched a new 4-mth onboarding program for new hires to make sure they are properly trained. In that same meeting announcing this new project, they informed us that we "didn't forget about the new hires we just had". In a meeting with our training team, we were told nothing can be done for us. In other words, we were the guinea pigs. Most of us either quit or got fired after the 3rd month. It isn't on any of the managers but more on the GMs. On top of all of that, the system that tracks your talk time and calls are glitchy. I know people who were missing phone calls a week after making them. As far as the job itself, new hires struggle to get accounts. Since there isn't any territories it is like (as my friend put it) The Hunger Games. If you don't put the correct status on an account you will lose your rev and the account to another rep and there is nothing you can do about it. Imagine being a new hire with no training on this, making a deal not knowing how to keep your rev from becoming someone else's. That was most new hires experiences and we had to accept it. It feels like you are running really fast for hours and going nowhere while bearing the burden of being told you are going to lose your job the whole time. It speaks volumes when vets who have been with this company for so long speak of this being the hardest season they have ever worked here. So imagine how hard it is for a new hire with no proper training trying to learn their job as fast as you can with limited resources (because most of the managers are new in their positions) so you don't get fired right out of training. Learning a new job is already stressful but this experience was by far one of the worst.

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