Redfin
Anyone have experiences working at redfin? Thoughts on the company and opportunities there?
Terrible interviewing practices in my experience. I was not impressed.
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What made it terrible? I thought it was good. They do a review of your take home assignment, you explain it and the interviewer collaborates with you on improving the solution, so that was a little different but not bad. They also don’t make you write a lot of code, it was more system design but that might be a factor of the level I interviewed for.
I have not worked there, but have friends there and interviewed there. Culture and people wise sf office looks good, but there are two main offices in Seattle ~100 or so people and sf 70-80. If they can capture the us real estate market, they have a possible 100x opportunity. Limiting factor is they have human brokers. This means they are like retail+tech.
I'm sure they're working on self-driving brokers and real estate agents!
Stagnant business with questionably racist hiring practices.
Mortgage rates are rising. If the macroeconomic situation matters to you then it's predictable that this class of company will have flat / declining growth
When I interviewed with them they seemed really nice.
Worst recruiting experience I ever had. The recruiter keep making me uncomfortable by asking way too early things like my current paycheck, where else I was interviewing, what companies I really liked, what offers I had, etc... It was so bad that RedFin was the only company that after I talked with a recruiter, I did not even get a screening interview...
I think we dodged a bullet with Redfin. Look at their stock post IPO lol. I get Better returns on my savings account.
I love their product!!
I feel their website is a lot better then zillow. They also integrated recently the redfin estimate and the 3D view of house. I'm impressed. I would consider to interview over there if a recruiter contact me.
It's great compared to not having something like it, but I don't love it. It hard to use and it's very slow.