Flexibility at Zillow
I’m considering joining Zillow. I know their official policy is you can work from anywhere in the U.S. as long as you identify your location to HR. I get it that it’s for tax purposes. But if I visit family for a week in a different state or go to a different state for a weekend and work from there on a Monday or Friday, do you really have to report this every single time? What about working from abroad for a week? Do they actively monitor your IP address location? Not planning on this regularly, just want to see if there is unofficial flexibility on doing this for about 3-4 weeks a year in total. #remotework #wfh #zillowgroup #zillow
You are fine as long as you don't work in a state long enough to establish residency which is much longer than a few weeks.
Ex Zillow here. You have to connect to a VPN for work and you can choose your “tunnel”. I always picked Seattle because for some reason Jira would load faster with that option. IP wise you’ll always be in Seattle. So that should help. I never worked from outside the US. They have flexible PTO and are pretty good about it. FWIW leaving Zillow was the dumbest decision I ever made.
Why do you say leaving was the dumbest decision?
I had it pretty good. Great tech stack, good team, stock grants every quarter. I was P4 and had been working to get to P5 for two years and at 2.5 years or so, I threw in the towel. As you know there is no “Staff” level and went looking for it elsewhere. I made it to “Staff” without the pay to show for it with a shit stack on a toxic team. Ended up getting laid off last year. My team was niche, small and probably wouldn’t have been affected by a layoff at Zillow. Hindsight is 20/20 right?
More than a month is when you have to file multiple tax returns I think
Can you tell me OP how did you gotta a call from Zillow? Was that a referral or direct careers.
Official policy is you can work from abroad 40 days a year, maximum 20 working days in each country, but you do need to let HR and IT know. Have seen several folks take advantage.
You’re fine. I’ve worked from multiple states for ~1 week with no issue. Just get your shit done on time.
It's super flexible you don't need to tell anyone you are in a different state as long as it isn't more than 20 days I think where it becomes taxable. Abroad you can work 20 days per country for a max of 40 days but you gotta let HR know so they prep your laptop/other things
What do you mean by “prep your laptop”? What do they do? I’ve worked from abroad with Amazon and never told anyone. No IT issues whatsoever, but I get it that Zillow may have things set up differently on the IT side.
Not sure if they install anything because I haven't done it
Role and tc offered?
How chill is it working for Zillow? I am thinking about taking a second job
I used to work at Zillow and would work in different states for short periods of time with no issues and I didn't tell anyone