Pros: Redfin employs some of the smartest people I know, and they all care about doing their very best work. What's more, it's easy to enjoy working (and not working!) with them. The engineering is exciting and interesting, and with the combination of the great co-workers, it's easy to look forward to going to work. The perks are great, too: - catered lunch a few days a week - generous time off - excellent insurance - more fun than you can shake a stick at. Even better, you're really breaking new ground in an industry resistant to change, and individually having a big impact, which makes work really satisfying.

Cons: Redfin feels more corporate than it ought to; the internal values, and how they're encouraged, feels just like the encouragement of flair at Chotchkies. Unfortunately that undercurrent pervades many other parts of the culture, as well; not in many obvious ways, but as an influence. Not to say that the culture is entirely bad; Redfin has its heart in the right place, and on the personal level, the culture is as great as you could hope for.

Pros: - Competitive salary - Data-driven decisions

Cons: - If you don't see yourself as the greatest engineer ever, you aren't qualified to work here. - You will be broken down and reassembled into an Agile (read sweatshop) version of yourself. Machines don't need downtime, so you don't need it, either.

Pros: - Overall nice people - 3 lunches a week - Lots of snacks and soda - Easy, 30 to 35 hours a week and you are golden - Excellent benefits - Lots of women engineers

Cons: - Pretends to be a startup that has a ton of process and red tape - Pay is below market and the stock isn't worth anything - Engineering org uses QA as a crutch to not take ownership of code - Tenure is important, and toxic people are allowed to stay based on how many years they have with the company - Technophobia is the best way to describe the engineering org. All java all the time, and only a spring mvc monolith. - People are literally treated like cogs, and you will be told that you are suppose to be a drop in replacement on any other team. - While there are some good ones, engineering talent is generally mediocre. - There is currently an exodus of senior talent and hiring is super painful - Hiring process is so much about product that people who fail all their technical interviews will still get hired due to product passion. On the flip side acing your technical but not answering their magic questions right won't get you an offer. - Entire management chain starting at the senior managers needs to be replaced. Not only are they dishonest, but they have no clue how to run a company the size of Redfin. - Vast majority of engineers; this is their first and only job. If it isn't what they already know or what Google and Facebook are doing, they will simply shut you down with any alternative ideas.