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Houzz overview

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Houzz is the leading platform for home remodeling and design, providing people with everything they need to improve their homes from start to finish - online or from a mobile device. From decorating a small room to building a custom home and everything in between, Houzz connects millions of homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home improvement professionals across the country and around the world. With the largest residential design database in the world and a vibrant community empowered by technology, Houzz is the easiest way for people to find inspiration, get advice, buy products and hire the professionals they need to help turn their ideas into reality. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Houzz also has international offices in London, Berlin, Sydney, Moscow, Bangalore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.
The staff at Houzz come from unusually diverse demographic backgrounds. The company is 67.5% female and 55.6% ethnic minorities. Despite its diversity in other areas, Houzz employees are noticeably lacking in political diversity. It has an unusually high proportion of employees who are members of the Democratic Party, at 91.0%. Employees seem to enjoy working in an otherwise diverse workplace that is dominated by members of the Democratic Party. Houzz has great employee retention with staff members usually staying with the company for 3.3 years.The average employee at Houzz makes $95,580 per year. In comparison, some of its highest paying competitors, like Airbnb, Pinterest, and Saviynt, pay $145,035, $131,506, and $99,239, respectively.
A large internet company with 1,000 employees and an annual revenue of $340.0M, Houzz is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Houzz's mission statement

To deliver the best technology, user experience and products for home remodeling and design.

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A zippia user wrote a review on Apr 2024
Houzz benefits

Fully remote work is the only benefit worth mentioning. The rest are average and below average.

Cons of working at Houzz

There's almost no transparency, no way to hold the leadership accountable, feels like a shining ship.

Pros of working at Houzz

Fully remote work and reasonable work like balance, but that varies by team.

What do you like best about Houzz's CEO and the leadership team?

Nothing, the CEO allows and encourages the most shady business practices. He micromanages everything. Customers most always leave bad reviews and no one cares

How would you improve Houzz's culture?

Replace the CEO, CFO, CPO, CTO clean house most of the leadership is terrible.

How did you prepare for the Houzz interview?

This question isn't really relative. They haven't en masse in years. Most hires are critical backfills once an employee gets wise and moves on.

How does your compensation at Houzz compare to the industry average?

In my experience the compensation at Houzz is below average. Lots of former employees left for more compensation.

What's the diversity at Houzz like?

The representation is good, but execution of internal DEI programming is stale at best.

What brings you the most joy at Houzz?

Fully remote work, a reasonable work life balance, and the layoffs keep me here.

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A zippia user wrote a review on Feb 2024
Pros of working at Houzz

The company paid it's people on time.

Cons of working at Houzz

The company started out as a very dynamic company, but soon it was clear the leadership team lacked any knowledge of retail or business fundamentals and sorely lacked leadership outside of a sales culture that was lead by the nose with Starbucks giftcards. The company only valued females who were yes'gals. Smiley and typical, nonsensical-bubbly dispositions, were revered more than real world experience and the company was always reluctant to ask difficult questions, let alone face the realities of the business. The fact they the company as to day, 2/26/2024 has not gone IPO or had an exit strategy since the company inception in 2006 (how the investors continue to let this happen is beyond me), shows you the extraordinary lack of leadership. The company blew through millions of dollars opening overseas offices, over hiring low wage employees, over marketing, only to find out that when the rubber hit the road, they didn't have the chops to take the company public after several CFO exits, including the CFO from LinkedIn, who quickly departed after seeing the absurdity of the leadership team.

Houzz benefits

Free Nespresso coffee and snacks.

What do you like best about Houzz's CEO and the leadership team?

Zero, nothing, the CEO was miserable person who was a know-it-all, usually even pushing her husband around who was the President. The rest of the leadership team acquiesced to save their paychecks.

How would you improve Houzz's culture?

Fire the CEO and President, and start over.

How does your compensation at Houzz compare to the industry average?

The compensation as you will see from their peers is far below average. Dont' bother.

What's the diversity at Houzz like?

Not diverse, mostly women, mostly young and inexperienced caucasians.

What brings you the most joy at Houzz?

Leaving for the day.

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A zippia user wrote a review on Aug 2020
Pros of working at Houzz

The office environment, employees, company culture, dress code, work-life balance, and gym membership discount.

Cons of working at Houzz

Lack of career progression, employer responsiveness, leadership favoritism, lack of tranparency.

Houzz benefits

Wellness initiatives

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The team at Houzz

  • The founders of Houzz are Adi Tatarko, Alon Cohen, Alex Chriss, Deepa Ramachandran, Gabriela Hebert, Spencer Lee, Clark Bernier, Lisa Rambo and Adi Tetraku.
  • The key people at Houzz are Adi Tatarko, Alon Cohen and Alex Chriss.
Key people
Adi Tatarko
Alon Cohen
Alex Chriss
Deepa Ramachandran
Gabriela Hebert
Spencer Lee
Clark Bernier
Lisa Rambo
Adi Tetraku

Houzz rankings

Houzz is ranked #25 on the Best Internet companies to work for in America list. Zippia's Best Places to Work lists provide unbiased, data-based evaluations of companies. Rankings are based on government and proprietary data on salaries, company financial health, and employee diversity.

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Houzz salaries

Average Houzz salary
$95,580
yearly
$45.95 hourly
Updated March 14, 2024

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Houzz diversity

9.3
Diversity score
We calculated Houzz’s diversity score by measuring multiple factors, including the ethnic background, gender identity, and language skills of Houzz’s workforce.
Houzz diversity summary. Zippia estimates Houzz's demographics and statistics using a database of 30 million profiles. Zippia verifies estimates with BLS, Census, and current job openings data for accuracy. We calculated Houzz's diversity score by measuring multiple factors, including the ethnic background, gender identity, and language skills of Houzz's workforce.
  • Houzz has 1,000 employees.
  • 68% of Houzz employees are women, while 33% are men.
  • The most common ethnicity at Houzz is White (44%).
  • 23% of Houzz employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 21% of Houzz employees are Asian.
  • The average employee at Houzz makes $95,580 per year.
  • Houzz employees are most likely to be members of the democratic party.
  • Employees at Houzz stay with the company for 3.3 years on average.

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Houzz office locations

Houzz is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA

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Houzz financial performance

9.8
Performance score

Highest paying Houzz competitors

Compare Houzz salaries to competitors, including Airbnb, Pinterest, and Saviynt. Employees at Airbnb earn the highest average yearly salary of $145,035. The salaries at Pinterest average $131,506 per year, and the salaries at Saviynt come in at $99,239 per year.
RankCompanyAverage salaryJobs
1$145,0350
2$131,5060
3$99,2390
4$90,7650
5$88,2410
6$87,2520
7$87,1320
8$87,0480
9$83,7980
10$82,7050

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