Earnest Reviews

Pros

great experience loved it and would refer

Cons

nothing much its all good here

Pros

Remote first. Pay is decent, benefits are ok. Great colleagues, everyone is highly skilled. No expectation to work overtime or on weekends. Annual full company meetup.

Cons

You have to accrue PTO which includes sick days. They crack down on being gone even a few hours if you are sick. They blindside employees with PIPs here if they do not meet standards which were never clearly communicated by the managers. Leadership from Heads, GMs, VPs to C-level do not take responsibility for ineffective systems and harmful culture of scapegoating. You never know when you might fall out of favor and then you are next. The entire design and research org turned over in a year and almost all the PMs quit within months of each other. Other team members have to pick up the slack and are expected to keep up the same pace. If you can keep your head down to do your work and are ok with not being supported by your managers in the product org, then you might do ok here.

Pros

Remote work is nice, and a few perks you'll see at other fintechs like flight reimbursements every year.

Cons

A few years ago, this was actually a pretty decent place to work. Lots of collaboration, understanding, camaraderie, just good work from good people. But the last couple of years have been super rough. The new senior leadership (including the CEO) are really, really toxic and out of touch. Don't expect to be promoted unless you're in with their "boys club". And don't expect a raise unless you also get a promotion, for some reason? Massive favoritism, shameless shunning of perfectly good employees, bullies everywhere you look. They claim to be transparent but in reality they avoid hard questions that employees ask, and they don't really do anything with valid employee feedback. They'll literally just tell you that if you don't like it you should leave. The toxic culture of the company stems from the top but it did trickle down everywhere. Working on projects between departments was a nightmare because every team will just point fingers at the others if things don't go their way. Events that were blameless mistakes suddenly get scapegoated to whoever is unlucky enough to get involved that day. Nobody is safe from the finger-pointing. Even changes where we were told that the company needs to fix something to follow the rules of lending, they wouldn't fix anything and just make excuses and point more fingers about who messed something up. It was just crazy. Especially when the execs are shoving these weird "values" down your throat about "better is better", but nobody would actually follow it, and the whole company is a mess. The direction of the company is really unclear. At company wide meetings you'll be told that there's growth up a head, but the actual growth is a big question mark and the company is definitely hemorrhaging employees. It feels like almost every month another big name would be leaving. The people who were stil laround were expected to pick up the slack, with no compensation or even recognition for the extra work. The upper level people will set ridiculous company goals - and then use those goals against the employees when it was time for performance reviews and bonuses. Employees have no say in the goals and then are punished when they weren't reached, it felt like you were just set up to fail. Honestly it feels like the senior leadership of the company is just really irresponsible. If you try to bring any of your problems to the people team, they just tell you that everything is actually okay and you're worrying over nothing. On top of that, they sometimes send out anonymous surveys to get your take on things but if you say anything negative they will still just give your feedback to a manager of your department so you can collect your lashings and be a good little employee. So if you get hired as a c-level you'll probably have a good time, i hear they take a lot of trips and have a good time together. But you should probably avoid this place in general, nobody is treated very well and a lot of people are leaving. I left at the end of last year and i've heard of a lot of my friends and coworkers leaving this year. Good for them. Too bad because it used to be a pretty cool place.

Pros

Work from Home Working to update and improve technology Health Benefits are positive

Cons

Constantly people are leaving other PO roles putting more pressure on active employees. Goals and future plans are not always clear Cross functional team communication is lacking and causes issues

Pros

- overall product focused - good people

Cons

- slow grwoth - benefits could be better

Pros

You work from home. That’s it.

Cons

Nothing works - not the website, not the policies, not management, not payroll - nothing. They have impossible standards and even if you achieve one you cannot achieve the others (by design). You are set up to fail every day. No one listens or makes actual changes to the things that aren’t working. It’s a company feigning to be a start up because everything they do sucks. Every day is a headache filled with unhappy customers, a clown show for management, micromanagement, an insane workload. I wouldn’t wish this place on the devil himself.

Pros

Super Flexible, Remote, Great Culture

Cons

Ineffective upper leadership, not enough in-person events

Pros

Salary, benefits and perks are good for a company of this size. There are a lot of good people, highly skilled and dedicated to do the best work that they can in a collaborative manner.

Cons

18 months ago I would have said that this was one of the most progressive, collaborative organizations I have had the pleasure of being part of and planned to stay for a long time under this progressive leadership. Through a couple of changes to the senior leadership and the closure of the San Francisco office to work permanently remote the environment started to change quickly. From what was a collaborative, no fault environment to a culture of throwing work over the wall between teams, lack of trust, depletion of respect and traits tending on threatening and bullying becoming rife. Reporting such behavior to the People team proved that this behavior was tolerated as the leadership have their favorites and they cannot be touched. The relationship between the Product and Engineering teams can only be described as fractured, they tolerate each other with finger pointing as the main communication with a side of back stabbing. Such a shame that this happened to a good bunch or people trying to do their best work, only to fall foul of a few bad apples creating a hostile environment.

Pros

Work from home was nice, that’s it.

Cons

No respect from management if you have a health condition. Management plays favorites with employees, if you’re not in the woke cool club, nobody cares. If you give leadership ideas to improve process, they simply give you no credit and management takes the trophies. Reporting such behavior to the People team proved that this behavior was tolerated as the leadership have their favorites and they cannot be touched. The relationship between you and your manager can only be described as broken, words fall upon deaf ears, it’s hard when your leaders are constantly talking about alcohol and even delivering alcohol to your door for ‘appreciation’. Disgusting work environment. Never work here.

Pros

Work from home or working remotely.

Cons

Hard to promote if the management don't like you.