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REA Group

4.3
  • 1,000 - 50,000 employees

REA Group Reviews

Based on 16 surveyed graduates working at REA Group. Read on to get an insider’s view on life as a graduate.
4.3
Based on 16 reviews

Pros & Cons

  • Highly talented colleagues who love to teach, great work-life balance, modern technologies and practices.
  • Undoubtedly the best thing about working at REA Group is the culture. Socially the type of people working there are the best of the best, whilst being really sociable and the learning culture riddled throughout day to day work is strongly supported.
  • There are a lot of learning opportunities available. The work is diverse and generally quite interesting The people you work with are skilled and mostly very kind.
  • Great culture, inclusiveness and a lot of opportunities to learn. Also being able to work on projects that follow really good software development practices.
  • Internal training. Company culture. Autonomy and trust to get objectives done. Can pursue other adjacent special interest areas. Opportunities to move around the company to different areas and fields.
  • The culture is great - space to grow and focus on self development. Diverse and welcoming people. Great work life balance.
  • The culture! REA Group has done an incredible job of an inclusive, supporting and encouraging atmosphere.
  • Worst thing about REA Group is probably the size of the company as a graduate whilst working from home was very challenging during COVID. It's hard to have any real understanding of the business as such a large company whilst rotating through smaller teams.
  • Too many meetings sometimes.
  • Getting larger, with scaling comes more corporate structure but still good at allowing individuals to grow.
  • The fact that it is a large company. There is something like 800 people just working in the Melbourne office. It's impossible to know them all and sometimes that makes it hard to know who the right person to reach out too for certain tasks is.

What Insiders Say

8.9
Career Prospects
8.9
Career Prospects
The grad program accelerates you into the REA Group ecosystem, and I think the managers here look to set you up for success and strategically place you in certain teams in the program and afterwards to ensure you can progress as much as possible.
8.4
Corporate Social Responsibility
8.4
Corporate Social Responsibility
They support a wide range of organisations as well as providing employees leave to volunteer with organisations of their choice.
9.1
Culture
9.1
Culture
Great culture. Super inclusive and dynamic. There are a lot of interest groups and guilds, as well as social and team bonding activities. I think it is a good environment for collaborating and learning from experienced software engineers.
8.7
Diversity
8.7
Diversity
I think REA is doing better than most in this space, but at the same time, can always do better.
8.9
Satisfaction
8.9
Satisfaction
My role is a mixture of front and back-end web development. Day-to-day I implement new features and maintain existing ones on REAs internal platforms and products, which can include data pipelines, design systems, or customer facing products like realestate.com.au. Much of the work is done in pairs or with substantial collaboration in technical decision-making. Some teams feature close collaboration between design and development, while in others the processes remain distinct and the teams are less cross-functional. Degrees of autonomy fluctuate team-by-team, both in terms of development at the individual level and degree of control the team as a whole has over the direction of the products/services they're building.
8.3
Management
8.3
Management
Very satisfied with the way REA sets up Rotation Leads and Mentors throughout the design program. Weekly one on one sessions, constant feedback and check ins and managers even publicly call out good work from a grad in larger meetings and forums for better exposure around the company. Lots of assessment (in a good way) around where to focus in terms of development.
9.2
Office Work Environment
9.2
Office Work Environment
Incredible space. Worth coming for a tour. Dress code is literally what ever you are comfortable in. There is no judgement nor expectations (however, it's probably best not to be covered in mud etc). I wear casual pants and sandals to work and feel very comfortable that no one is expecting anything more than that. It's up to you.
8.9
Recruitment
8.9
Recruitment
The process involved an initial application - answering questions and submitting a resume. This was followed by a set of testing, then an additional questionnaire incorporating video responses. A final round was held at the offices in Richmond, involving a technical interview, cultural-fit interview and group exercise to assess teamwork.
8.2
Salary
8.2
Salary
REA Group is competitive with their prices, they do their research and make sure their employees are getting paid what they deserve. We also have a bonus scheme based on individual and company performance.
9.0
Training
9.0
Training
Buckets of trainings to take part in. I've attended in-house Android, iOS, and Scala trainings run by senior developers from the company. In addition, interest groups around UI, functional programming, etc run frequent sessions.
8.8
Work Hours
8.8
Work Hours
REA Group is super flexible. Especially with everything going on at the moment. If you'd like to work 8-4 so you've got more time in the afternoon, or start a bit later, no stress. Need to take an hour out of your day for an appointment, totally fine, just make the hour back later.
8.4
Sustainability
8.4
Sustainability
We have annual sustainability reports and this year we have a new Carbon Change policy to reduce and offset our carbon emissions.