Opendoor reviews

- What is actually being worked on vs what was told prior to accepting offer. What was hyped up during final stages before offer acceptance which made me accept offer is not at all what I'm doing. Be careful. - Compensation communication: Transparency around pay especially as the world moves remote is atrocious. - Compensation: Don't let the location fool you, remote does not mean remote. It simply means "not in office". You get paid for your location, not your skills/title. If you move, expect to be shocked at how much they'll be cutting your pay. If you're not within a 50 mile radius of a large tech hub city (Seattle, LA, SF, New York City) you're not going to be paid what you're worth. If you do live in a 50 mile radius of a large tech hub and decide to make a move, you'll quickly learn you are worth much less to the company. - Dev environments and repos are pretty bad. There are so many useless processes/pipelines from how over architected the different environments are. Expect to spend the first 3-4 months even figuring out where the heck anything is and how it's all working together from local, qa/staging, and production. If you ever figure it out. - There definitely appears to be a pattern with the past / current hiring bias. This is in regards to ethnicity. Female representation is pretty dang good for a company as big as Opendoor, especially on the engineering / eng manager side of things. Best I've seen at a company so far. - Be prepared to be evaluated extremely hard on the career ladder.

The biggest con is that we actively try to hire great talented licensed agents and then don’t allow them to practice real estate in any way shape or form. There used to be a policy to allow 5 transactions per year which was pretty reasonable to be able to help friends or family who really want to work with someone they trust while not encouraging people to continue to work “outside business”. The new senior manager in brokerage obviously has no respect for real estate because she ended that as her first to-do and now you literally can’t even represent yourself in a transaction. Yes, to be clear you will not be helping your PARENTS buy a home or even collecting your own well-deserved commission on THE PURCHASE OF YOUR OWN HOME. Have already heard of several well qualified licensed agents decline offers due to the absurdity of this. The only people who are okay with it are likely not very busy agents and therefore not very experienced. Last con which is also pretty silly is that after Covid is over the company will force a ton of people back to the office to do a job they’ve been doing remotely for over a year because “there’s so much value in being in the office together”.