Pros: Great teammates to work with.

Cons: They literally have never been profitable.

Pros: Redfin has an awesome mission, and is looking to modernize a backward and disliked industry. It has your standard tech perks and atmosphere plus some. Like people who are friendly and helpful, you're surrounded by snacks and beer, a beautiful office overlooking Puget Sound, catered lunch or a walk to Pike Place Market, good pay, hackathons, etc. Engineering is empowered, although I won't say it's perfect, and provides career goals and growth. Such as the ability to focus on the technology you're most interested in, with frequent 1-1s to course correct. There is lots of transparency, access to internal documents about revenue, growth, and the company's long-term financial plans, etc. Going back to the mission, it's very interesting to get out of general pure tech and have a brick and mortar side, which is a brokerage! Oh, and Glenn, who is the CEO, is an awesome guy. There are many great and hilarious stories surrounding him!

Cons: Moving to a new office next year to accommodate growth, which probably won't be as awesome. Often run out of gold peak tea. Growing pains, although these are natural.

Pros: - A competitive salary - Most of the developers who are invested in the tech, responding to questions, getting code out, and being supportive

Cons: - Heavily political environment; moving teams or giving feedback was not something that could be done freely without retaliation on your career even if it was fair feedback or moving for your own interest. This also hurts you in receiving genuine feedback because this fear is shared amongst peers. You can be blindsided in performance reviews, and bonuses and promotions are affected. - It is not as *relaxed* of an environment as was sold in the interview, and work-life balance is team dependent. It is comparable to Amazon in the expectation of shipping out features. - The company does not genuinely care about diversity. This is just offensive to see and hear; higher-ups will talk about it constantly, share personal stories, and ask employees to share their own traumas with the company. For what? There are a lot of people who make openly racist and sexist comments at that company, and HR does nothing. Their racial diversity numbers are on par with the rest of big tech. They should be more professional in how they handle working with diverse employees instead of tokenizing so many of them.