Favoritism, deception, and unqualified leadership. No longer a great startup. - Anonymous employee Opendoor Employee Review

1.0
30 July 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

SF location, lunch while it was offered

Cons

Where to begin...There's enough recent reviews about our harsh internal culture, poor work/life balance, leadership favoritism, customer disregard/ manipulation, sub-par product quality/eng, and manager backstabbing to fill a kindle, so there's no need to elaborate further. (all of which are truthful) Advice to prospective employees... Want to know what it's like to work at Opendoor? Simply, think the worst of the culture of Uber (nearly half the company joined from Uber) and the greed/deception of many 2008-era financial companies that are no longer around. Think good and hard about your decision to join us here. If you do, realize all you'll ever be at Opendoor is a metric, one that is bendable until you break or become expendable. We laid off 35% of our employees (roughly 600 people for reported COVID concerns) the week after a company-wide update about their long-term financial stability. Before the dust had even settled, we reposted and started fresh hiring for many of the positions recently cut. Make no mistake. Opendoor is the tech version of 'We buy ugly houses' with better branding and design.

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Opendoor Response
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Thank you for providing your feedback to us. It’s clear you feel we have a lot of work to do. We noticed that you are still a current employee with Opendoor, and we’d love the opportunity to be able to speak with you more directly so that we can understand more context around where these instances and challenges have occurred. We’d also like the opportunity to address a few points in your review that need some clarifying. First, we’re proud of our diverse team, which includes team members from many different companies -- there is no company in which half of our employees have joined from. As for recently posted roles, we’re excited to have been able to rehire many former employees as our business needs changed through this unprecedented time for our industry. We are continuing to update our careers page, and we encourage all former employees to reach out to their former colleagues to learn more or apply directly.

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