A tech company led by non-tech leaders - Anonymous employee UnderwriteMe Employee Review

Hi it's Xander from the current leadership team. Thanks for taking the time to write a review. I agree that our relationship with our parent company means we have the stability and quality leadership that so many start ups and scale ups lack with their constantly pursuit of funding rounds. We have all the benefits of a well-established company with all the energy, pace, agility (and frankly, fun) of a scale up. I think of it as the best of both worlds! I'm glad you like the new office space - there's been lots of positive feedback on how it adapts perfectly to multi-use from stand-ups to shares to workshops and that there's space which works for those who like to be social and those who want to do more quite, deep concentration or confidential work too. You just can't put a price on a working coffee machine either!! I disagree that our turnover is high. We actually have turnover that is half of some tech industry comparators but we are not complacent and want to keep upgrading our employee experience. Winning a Company Culture award earlier this year was a great external validation that we are on the right track. I do however agree that there is a lot of change to grapple with but such is life in a nimble, agile start up that responds to both its external environment and it's own growth path to becoming a fully product-led business. In some ways the challenges that come up feed the need for variety that a lot of us have and we love to stretch ourselves. It's part of why we love working for a tech scale up! However, I can appreciate for people who prefer the much more traditional, slower moving nature of a large financial services institution, where life is very predictable and cyclical would find it difficult to feel at home.