Zillow

Witnessing tremendous growth, but still maintaining rock-solid culture.

Really like how management cares about employees and listens. Employee surveys are taken seriously, and actions are taken based on that.

Innovation is at the core of the company. Always thinking big and moving fast to achieve those goals. It is hard to see from the outside, but that is the reason Zillow dominates the markets and competition keeps playing catch-up.

Pretty much still a bottom-up approach, with small teams driving awesome products. There is a level of autonomy given to engineers.

Work-life balance is great. I really like how we do all release activities during the daytime with almost no downtime to the live site. We have a really efficient operations team that makes this happen (they can be a little stubborn at times, but they need to keep Zillow running -- understandable). That means no on-call for developers.

Mostly due to the flat organizational structure, it's hard to see clear career progression.