Work at a cutting edge company without heavy process in your way. - Anonymous employee Zillow Employee Review

5.0
30 Oct 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work independently without micromanagement - you are left to do your best work.

Cons

Sometimes the product is overly complex. Some architecture redesign is needed to reduce number of services and other complexity.

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Zillow Response
12y
Thank you for this review! As you know (because you have worked here for a few years), we try to keep our product teams as small as possible and run them as semi-autonomous units. Almost like individual startups. They each have their own product queues, their own Devs, designer(s), test(ers), PMs, etc, and they are responsible for their own feature prioritizations. This makes things much more nimble, and also makes it a more interesting place to work on Product than most other companies. It's all about trying to keep Zillow agile despite growing our company size signficantly.

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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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