Redfin

Company Wide

• Awesome co-workers all around. Engineering, Real Estate, Marketing, and Operations are just great people.
• Great health benefits for employees and their families.
• Glenn, the CEO, is awesome. He is extremely candid and transparent. I feel like I can walk into his office at any time and speak to him about any idea, issue, or decision. At my last company, senior management had little communication with the rest of the organization and spent too much time playing politics and raking in their big bonuses. It is the total opposite here. I feel like Glenn and company want everyone at Redfin to succeed, and truly care about each employee.
• Other random benefits include a ton of free food, catered lunch at HQ and SF offices, lots of happy hours, parties, and get-togethers.
• Good work-life balance.
• People are customer focused and have great values, and always want to do the right thing for the customer.

Engineering

• Extremely smart co-workers. Before joining, I had no idea that engineering was so strong. There is a mix of really good Senior Devs and PMs and top-tier university recruits who know their stuff.
• Everyone is extremely helpful and accommodating. There are no egos here.
• Two Hackathons per year. You can build some great prototypes and new technologies with people across different teams.
• Engineering tries to keep meetings to a minimum to let devs work on actually building things.
• Lots of interesting and challenging projects to work on.

• Free food that is way too much of it
• There are some dev annoyances (tools/builds/deploys) that could be improved, which should mostly be alleviated by changes currently being implemented
• Seems like work-life balance varies by team, and senior management tells employees to ensure they have a healthy work-life balance, but not sure it is always possible in practice.

Awesome job