- Many of the negative parts of Amazon culture are taking over at Zillow, most likely as a result of many former Amazon employees now working there
- "Toxic positivity": People you work with are very nice to you but don't fully support you unless it benefits them. They are more inclined to share negative opinions of you with your manager than to offer constructive criticism directly.
- Leadership is frequently changing priorities and strategies which makes it difficult to show any real success with initiatives you're working on
- A focus on heavy documentation slows everyone down and greatly increases the workload. The number of meetings required to finalize each document is also excessive.
- Very risk averse. There is a lot of talk from leadership about taking "big swings", but in reality most of the leaders in the company are worried about taking any kind of risk even when there is a potentially big reward.
- Unless you know people on the team you're joining, you are rolling the dice on what your work experience will be like. The quality of the experience can vary greatly from team to team. From what I've heard from coworkers it is best to stay away from any team in the Zillow Home Loans org.
