Blend Reviews

Pros

Great culture, extremely fair compensation, and highly advanced and innovative product offerings with an already huge market share.

Cons

Growing pains since going public, market has effected revenue growth.

Pros

-Free snacks -Transparency is valued although in segments. That’s all.

Cons

Everything else. It is NOT remote if you live near an office and aren’t in engineering or product development or HR.. No they will not give any consideration to if you have complications getting to and from the office or prefer to stay remote. They will force you to go back to the office. They laid off 10% of their employees which is never a good sign. Their vision is clearly out of touch with reality and the CEO is no exception to that. Spend more than 3 days working as an employee and you’ll see what I mean. Diversity and inclusion efforts are to be commended but overshadowed by the helicopter-style management methods that are so overbearing you’ll want to quit after a few days. Beneath all the atta-boys and fabricated camaraderie, there are “metrics” that you’ll need to meet or suffer the consequences. Not a very supportive and understanding environment. Are you someone who sits in their seat and accepts mediocracy? This job is for you. An innovator looking for ways to change the game and brainstorm with the brightest minds around?! Look somewhere else. There’s this uncomfortable feeling like you’re always being watched like a call center and are 100% talked about in the several meetings management has per day. I’m talking like 4-5 meetings per day not per week so they are understandably so out of touch that you’re left figuring things out for yourself. Benefits are slowly being eroded into oblivion due to the lack of profit and yet everyone is still clinging to hope. Recognize a sinking ship when you see one, you’ll thank me later… Don’t walk. Run.

Pros

Financial technology space was interesting and a fun problem to solve at its peak

Cons

- CEO set the big brother culture, everyone questions what people are doing and how hard they’re working. He also promotes people who are willing to sell themselves to Blend and commit themselves to work. - the company doesn’t appreciate their employees and the fact that they’re the livelihood of the business. They did a terrible job of promoting from within and setting people up for success - Lack of leadership and training caused serious problems and often times they’d promote people who should’ve never been managers in the first place, they were friends of the CEO versus the most qualified person - C level let’s the CEO walk all over them and they’re too scared to challenge him and do the right thing - The reason the company is failing so miserably is because the CEO is unwilling to admit his faults and is too selfish at this point to make the right decisions for the business and their employees. He’s now so caught up in materialistic things he’s not making smart decisions for the company. - It’s a sinking ship and has been for a really long time. They kept people at the company who should’ve been fired years ago - No matter how much time you spend at the company or how much effort and time you put into your job they still forget your work anniversaries, don’t have proper reasons behind not giving promotions or compensation increases - The company was really irresponsible with their equity grants and fundraising - I would never recommend a friend to work at this company

Pros

It's never boring, I feel like I'm growing as a software engineer, I get to work with all the teams, not just my own. Work from home is a real plus

Cons

Can be a bit stressful, they have done a mass lay off not too long ago which makes me feel like it's not as stable as it could be.

Pros

wlb remote good people work together

Cons

leadership and management transparency product direction