Pros: A few motivated and ethical people.

Cons: The executive leadership has been playing a game of hit and trial for the last couple of years to stay afloat. They opened India offices, hired 50+ members, and decided to shut them down after inaugurating offices in Hyderabad and Bangalore in just 4 months. This shows the lack of vision, strategy, and foresight of leadership. Any company is made of two assets: people and culture. The people who are left after back-to-back massive layoffs (4 since Nov 2022) are just passing the time each day. Being a recent ex-employee, the motivation of people is extremely low. Don't get clouded by the positivity that's shown during interviews. It's all a facade. And the culture is horrible. 50+ India employees were informed over a 2-minute Zoom call that they were let go by HR. No leader cared to show up and no 1:1's were scheduled with managers. On top of it, the health insurance ended the same day, and a meager 2-month severance package was handed out. On top of this, considering how the housing market is not doing great and the interest rates are still high, the product is just hanging by a thread before it dies.

Pros: - Work-life balance - Compensation (see attached con) - Everyone is friendly and seems to be driven towards the same goal of building a better and easier online real-estate process. - Remote and Education stipends - Frequent team events and lunches (DoorDash covered since they're remote). - PMs (at least mine) are straight fire; always organized, keeping us updated on what's happening, what's coming down the pipe, and even future initiatives. - Career ladder for engineers that is extremely detailed for each level

Cons: - What is actually being worked on vs what was told prior to accepting the offer. What was hyped up during the final stages before offer acceptance which made me accept the offer is not at all what I'm doing. Be careful. - Compensation communication: Transparency around pay, especially as the world moves remote, is atrocious. - Compensation: Don't let the location fool you, remote does not mean remote. It simply means "not in the office". You get paid for your location, not your skills and title. If you move, expect to be shocked at how much they'll be cutting your pay. If you're not within a 50-mile radius of a large tech hub city (Seattle, LA, SF, New York City), you're not going to be paid what you're worth. If you do live in a 50-mile radius of a large tech hub and decide to make a move, you'll quickly learn you are worth much less to the company. - Dev environments and repos are pretty bad. There are so many useless processes and pipelines from how over-architected the different environments are. Expect to spend the first 3-4 months even figuring out where the heck anything is and how it's all working together from local, QA, staging, and production. If you ever figure it out. - There definitely appears to be a pattern with the past and current hiring bias. This is in regards to ethnicity. Female representation is pretty dang good for a company as big as Opendoor, especially on the engineering and eng manager side of things. It is the best I've seen at a company so far. - Be prepared to be evaluated extremely hard on the career ladder.

Pros: People - coworkers in the trench

Cons: Management, especially the c-suite and former CEO