Redfin hires contractors directly (not through a staffing agency) in a contract-to-hire role which means they will try you out for a few months as a contractor and if they like you, they will convert you to an Full-Time employee later. The benefit to you is you get to see if you like the job and negotiate a better package since you now know they want you and what the job involves and you may have time to gather what kind of salary to expect by talking to other fulltime employees.
Redfin is a company of real estate agents and software engineers working together to change the whole real estate game in consumers’ favor. Like any brokerage, Redfin employs agents to help our customers buy and sell homes.
The only difference is simple but revolutionary: we're on the customer’s side. Really on the customer’s side. Our agents earn a customer-satisfaction bonus not a commission, so instead of going for the easy sale we fight for the client’s best interests, even when that means telling a client to walk away from a bad deal. Our online tools make the home tour, the listing debut, the escrow process -- the whole process -- totally transparent and worry-free.
No other brokerage has the same ability to build technology or put customers first. Our work as agents allows us to build a better website, publishing proprietary data from local real estate boards as well as firsthand insights from Redfin agents touring homes and writing offers. And our agents, backed by the #1 brokerage website and the top-rated mobile applications, can in turn focus on serving customers, not prospecting for new ones.
With $50 million in funding from the investors in Facebook and Amazon, Redfin’s focus is on reinventing the home-buying and selling experience for the 21st century. The company so far has a 97% customer-satisfaction rating, $5+ billion in home sales and is one of the world’s fastest-growing brokerages in a $60-billion market.
