Zillow

You don't have to work very much. You don't have to be a good engineer.

This is a pretty lame company for an engineer. tl;dr - you will not get to make any decisions, you will not even be given any information until it's time for you to grind out some code, there is no sense of career growth whatsoever, and your coworkers will be lazy.

Orders and all company decisions are handed down from the top. If their decisions are wrong, they'll fire some middle manager scapegoat and craft new ones without listening to their employees.

Product managers will hang out in meetings and won't invite engineers even when they're discussing important details and information about the products said engineers will be working on. You will be told what to do; you don't contribute to the vision.

Zillow has a lot of B-rate "senior" engineers who will stop any change, regardless if it's beneficial, to the code/stack. A lot of them are pretty lousy workers too. If you're not brought on as a senior hire, you will get the monotonous work. This is not the place for any sort of career (or personal) growth as an engineer.

HR is trying to engineer the company culture, which means you have to do stupid things to entertain their whims and a lot of awkward, low-budget events happen around the office. Many people just take the opportunities to go home early, so much for the company culture.

The finance department is very bureaucratic; it will take a long time to get anything, to say the least.

Top managers are excellent business strategists, but this means Zillow is a top-down, command company, where employees don't get to contribute ideas or grow very much professionally.

They need to flip their company culture on its head and let the employees (not HR) run the company and envision the products, while they make the business maneuvers.

Nothing is more annoying than having a manager tell you you're happy. Zillow feels like a place where upper management is trying really hard to engineer company happiness, instead of just letting employees be happy from contributing and taking on responsibility on their own.