Terrible and incompetent recruiters. I decided to not proceed with Zillow at all. Just to give you background for the further story - I'm a Principal SWE at a public software development company located in Silicon Beach, 15 years of experience. Definitely not a person, who would expect the attitude described below. I got interested in Zillow Offers' SSWE position in Irvine, so I contacted their NA Recruiting Lead and she suggested two ladies to reach out, as she was on a maternity leave. I chose one person randomly, and since then the whole process was botched and just a waste of time. The lady scheduled a call, was asking lot of questions, at the end told me that the position I told her about (in advance before the call!) was not under her responsibility, so she would ask that other recruiting lady to call me. I definitely applaud this recruiter - she organized a very "professional" and useless phone call. That second recruiting lady never called. I tried to contact her myself - she never responded. The resume I uploaded to their system went to nowhere. So I just forgot about Zillow. That was beginning of August 2019. Out of the blue in October 2019 I was suddenly contacted by their new recruiter. Got a standard flattering email telling that my experience "aligns perfectly" with their open position. LOL! When I responded to the recruiter, he said that he didn't actually knew that I applied two months before that. It took him a while to find my application. And he told me some nonsense - that indeed there was my resume received on September 17th (omg, what a lie - I actually applied in August) - and the only reason I was not contacted is because that second recruiting lady was currently on a vacation - so probably she didn't see the application (seems like very "professional" lie again). Then it took several days for him just to schedule a phone call - and then he didn't actually call at that time. I was already laughing at Zillow recruiting department, this case added more laughs :) Anyway, I accepted his apologies, and we indeed had a phone call in a couple of days – the recruiter gathered same (!) information as the first lady, promised to arrange me a call with the hiring manager. Needless to say that it never happened - he never called/messaged back. Well, I saw imperfect recruiters before. But seems like Zillow decided to say "hold my beer, bro" and show how a really disorganized recruiting process might look like. Good job - you nailed it, Zillow!