REA Group Reviews

Pros

REA is a fast paced environment, with plenty of opportunity for personal growth. They offer a competitive salary package and allow for great flexibility for those with families or other (non-work related) commitments.

Advice to Management

Free breakfast in the Melbourne office! ;D

Pros

* Highly business focused organisation, with a high level of focus on goals.
* Good policies for those with families (parental leave policies, flexible working arrangements).
* Some aspects of workplace experience good (e.g. good showers and bike storage facilities are great for those travelling via active modes).
* Good support for people to learn on the job.

Advice to Management

Start valuing people above other things (like organisational structure) - the company is nothing and won't stay ahead of competitors without good people. Pay more for good people. Empower people to innovate through things like hack days. Trust employees rather than putting in place controls that would be meaningless against anyone actually malicious anyway. Don't force good people out (or make them quit from low morale after rounds of decimation of the ranks) through pointless reorganisations and redundancies.

Pros

The salary package is very good
There is flexibility in working from home/ interstate offices
Getting exposure to a variety of Australian media agencies as clients
There are development programs in place if you push for them.
The maternity and paternity leave policies are generous and flexible, however in many cases there is no leave cover hired.

Pros

- Wonderful inclusive culture where individuals are respected for who they are and strengths they can bring to the team.
- Very fast paced. Beyond team day to day work there are multitude additional projects and initiatives to get involved in from business through to external community focus.
- This place walks the talk better than all other employers I've experienced.
- Quality of work delivered in the most part is industry leading. Typically you'll find yourself surrounded by colleagues who are at the top of their field.
- This is a small company comparatively for the success its built, still has a startup type feel despite all the benefits that are provided to employees. Strangely the company doesn't externally promote much of what goes on, possibly that’s part of the secret.
- Company is growing and isn't yet shackled with the bureaucracy of bigger tech businesses
Very big concentration and experienced tech community to immerse yourself in to learn from and contribute to in the Richmond office.

Advice to Management

- Keep with the strong people over process approach;
- Get braver with trying new ideas and approaches;
- Our competitors are now offering the same benefits and are catching up with building better working environments that put people first
- Sales and Tech get the lion's share of love understandably, but its noticeable that other teams are sometimes an afterthought.

Pros

great people to work with
great work life balance
good pay

Advice to Management

keep on training the staff

Pros

Great office space
Friendly staff (mostly)
Top of it's industry

Advice to Management

Get to know your customer, and trust your staff's opinions. Stop making decisions top down.

Pros

- great culture and people
- great product with constant innovation
- convenient location (office is modern with great tech)
- interesting, fast-paced work environment
- some of the smartest devs I’ve worked with
- use of benefits such as flexible working hours and work from home are encouraged
- snacks, coffee, yoga, hack days, time off to volunteer with charities, generous parental leave, matched donations and REA share purchase

Pros

Get to work on market leading products used 30 million + times a month.

Pros

Learning culture. Depending on the team, really good people.

Advice to Management

Some humility would go a long way. Keep it real, for real. Please for the love of all that money, slow down. Focus.

Pros

Great engineers, lots of opportunity to learn and grow.