Joining Zillow Offers venture is one of my most memorable life experience. The team started in late 2018 with a handful of strong engineers and applied scientists. Zillow was also a medium size company of less than 4,000 people. As the ZO business grow, the ZOML (Zillow Offers Machine Learning) team and Zillow both scaled extremely fast. ZOML hired many people. Luckily, there was no layoffs before the ZO wind-down, which happened on Nov. 2, 2021. The company; however, did have a massive layoff (2000+ people) in early 2022.
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