Green Dot Reviews

Pros

The people that work here are amazing! Executives care about our people. Great ESPP -- Highest discount available with tax benefits. Management wants to see their people succeed.

Cons

It takes time for change. I know people want to see immediate results to their input. Luckily, in my role, I can see that the leaders are working on it. You have be intentional about your work life balance or it can get out of control. Even I am guilty of this.

Pros

Work from anywhere model Friendly coworkers, easy to work with

Cons

I have watched this company decline so rapidly under the new CEO. It is a shell of its former self. There is no job security. Good luck with work life balance, managements goal is to work you until you die or quit. Teams were already running with the minimum possible number of workers and so many have been fired or quit. Every few months there is a mass firing. Every meeting the CEO threatens to fire everyone. The decisions on who is fired makes no sense. The remaining people are expected to take on the work and they won't hire replacements. Everyone is miserable, and everyone is trying to leave ASAP. A lot of people are trapped because they have no free time at all. Sometimes you are told to work nights and weekends because projects are so behind and can't say no or else you will be fired. No bonuses or raises this year, and CEO is already threatening to do the same next year if the business doesn't improve. Yet the CEO and management are doing everything possible to make sure the business fails. They are either unbelievably incompetent, or being instructed to destroy the business. It's hard to tell because some of the decisions they make are so blatantly awful. Management has been filled with CEOs friends who get special privileges and don't care about employees at all. I wouldn't be surprised if it was announced they were moving to offshore or selling the company any day now.

Pros

Fun people to work with, bit of a cowboy culture. If you believe in a project and can prove its value management will listen. The work can be overwhelming at times, but there are good people to help you out. The pay is competitive, and the benefits are improving. The new permanent work from home policy is really great.

Cons

Management can be change priorities rather quickly and new hot items from the C-Suite can sometimes really upend your week.

Pros

The only good thing is the WFH policy which was started after the pandemic.

Cons

Avoid Green dot. Lots of turnover often, some newcomers leave in a few months, insufficient KT, unpredictable projects and has many testers or QA of low caliber. *** Bad onboarding experience. *** - No structured plan and vague goals change every few weeks. - Insufficient documentation. - Everyone is so busy that they don't have enough time to enable new employees. *** Bad career growth for QA. *** - Many QA have little curiosity and are more focused on checking for "expected results" like a robot. - The bar for QA code is shockingly low like high school level code. - China team does a lot of the automation work. So, not enough learning opportunity for onshore. - QAs who survived reorgs might hoard knowledge and work i.e. no growth for new employees. - Some people lead teams but don't have relevant degree or have little work experience. *** Bad QA tools and process. *** - Many QA tools which are almost abandoned by industry or in decline. - QA often don't review each others tests and code, or don't do it properly. - QA rarely document review of tests or code. Hence, no visibility into the quality of their work. - QA hardly or improperly document important features, even though its required. Document reviews are uncommon or hasty. - QA add too many little tests for testing trivial things which requires lot of cleanup.

Pros

Some good coworkers to work alongside of, but mostly it's because pretty much everyone is burnt out and working like a slave so it becomes easier to have something in common to chat about, I guess.

Cons

Some bad apples at the company as well (especially those in the management positions who do not belong there and only got there but throwing other people under the bus or kissing upper management's butt - you know who you are. Stop pretending like you care about your employees by giving us a $50 gift card year end bonus, it's sad and pathetic. If you really appreciate us, you would stop the constant mass layoffs every few months or so and get rid of those at the top who have no idea about how to run a business or a team for that matter.

Pros

Pay competitive but diminished with excessive hours worked

Cons

CEO and direct reports replaced with competitor’s C-levels with old ideas. CEO consistently made claims to separate himself from previous CEO but has same reactive reprioritizing of competing initiatives. not different just less interested in the employees that are exhausted and ready to leave. Poor top down communication and lack of effectiveness sharing how to meet organizational strategies. Extensive layoffs over last year with disregard for how work gets done but helpful to release employees already looking elsewhere. Common misguided optimism to bring in short term c-level consultants to improve products/ costs when existing mid managers or revenue proven fin tech competitor’s employees have better ideas. Thought layoffs would help the stock price but there is so much uncertainty with this leadership the price hasn’t improved in 6 months. Employee culture is gone and turnover will continue with current leadership as employees are overworked and migrating to saturated fintech market with better work environments and product execution

Pros

working remote that is all. some of the coworkers are nice

Cons

If you truly care about your health , please do not join this company. * there is almost zero work life balance and do not be fooled by their working remote policy. * below average salary * IT and engineering team are treated like trash * you are expected to work around 60-70 hours a week . So whatever they offer you divide it by 70 to get your hourly rate. * There is no promotion. * No salary adjustment inflation (Your salary always will be the same). * The word "culture" does not even exist here.