Pros: The company has maintained a small company feel despite our rapid growth over the last three years. The people I work with are insightful, creative, and also really supportive and friendly. The work I do is challenging, and recognition for great work is abundant. People are passionate about their work, and it shows in the meetings and in the presentation of projects. The company is very transparent in its goals and processes, and knowledge sharing is encouraged. There is also a huge emphasis on work-life balance, but people also recognize that sometimes those hours need to be put in to hit a deadline. I haven't had an issue with putting in those extra hours because, in the long run, it helps.

Cons: There are some big company politics that have crept in subtly with the rapid hiring that we've done of people from the big boys in the area like Microsoft, Expedia, and Google, but most of it is squashed when they figure out how Zillow operates.

Pros: 1. Great and friendly people. 2. Clearly defined project and well executed. 3. Great executive leadership, clear roadmap on what they are doing. 4. Schedule is reasonable and not aggressive. 5. Easy problem to solve if you like it.

Cons: The following cons are from an engineering/eng-management prospective and may not be related to other orgs: 1. Engineering talent/leadership is not top-level. If you are a top-ranked engineer, you will feel a lot of pushback and dragging. Great ideas are not easy to spark. 2. Mid-management is very laid-back. They need to be more aggressive to help the company move in the right direction. 3. Granted, long-staying people are now at the mid-senior management level. However, this is a problem that prevents the company from moving forward. They have a lot of legacy issues that *should* have been fixed long ago if there was a commitment to it. Unfortunately, the safe route is always selected. 4. A lot of cost optimization can be done within the technical stack, but it is hard to convince people to care. 5. Technology management/development is traditional. You will see a bunch of Unix admins/DBAs and ops, handling day-to-day operations and also blocking progress in a SOA world. I understand many companies have similar problems. Zillow is probably better than all of its peers, but given Zillow is young and wants to move to the next stage, then it has to do something different.

Pros: All of their values are in the right place.

Cons: No cons whatsoever.