NerdWallet Reviews

Pros

Remote Friendly, Positive team culture, great benefits and supportive management

Cons

Career growth at the company is ambiguous and depends on the team

Pros

Company gives stock-to new employees for free

Cons

Been at the company 6 years and *bought* my stock options just to learn that they're giving stock away to NEW employees for free. The people that built this company paid, with work, time, dedication and our money and newbies get it for free. This is a slap in the face to all long time employees. Public articles came out about it being a wonderful thing for the employees but in reality- old employees were trying to get rid of their options on a secondary market. It's not fair. Toal spin.

Pros

The work life balance here is unparalleled - everyone gets their work done without needing to force anyone to work late. Honestly, this is so rare!

Cons

It can sometimes take a while to get promoted.

Pros

- Great perks and work-life balance - Some incredibly smart and driven people - Overall mission

Cons

- Middle-upper management is a huge political game - I’ve never trusted an HR org less in my career - A lot of lip service and foul play - Little output due to shifting roadmap and lack of clear direction and initiative (from the top down) I worked at NerdWallet full-time for almost two years. It was full of great times, amazing parties, and life-long friendships. It was also full of anxiety, extreme politic-ing, and mismanagement of people. It was mentally, emotionally, and eventually physically draining to go into a place every morning where I did not feel protected. NerdWallet talks a big talk when it comes to HR efforts around diversity, feedback, and support. It became very clear to me that these efforts are just overcompensating for the huge gap and mistrust among NW employees when I pursued these resources consistently with no change or actual support. I time and time again reported concerns of nepotism and unfair treatment of both myself and other members that were being affected on my team. I first reported this to my HR business partner and manager’s manager. During the several months of recurring meetings with both of these parties (many of which were constantly pushed out and cancelled), I was met with the same banalities and trite responses without any plan of action or recourse. While NerdWallet is insistent that HR reports are taken seriously and escalated as necessary, I did not at all find this to be true in the 6 months I spent logging written complaints and meeting with my HR business partner and manager +1. Therefore, I left on my own accord after voicing my concerns for the good part of a year with no improvement in sight. I had been reviewed as a high/exceeding expectations performer for my two years there, and it’s an extremely sad realization that NW is willing to lose good people due to the egregious amt of politics that go on. Beyond myself, I had seen this happen several times. If you value security, belonging, and support- I recommend you steer clear of this place. If you are OK with politics and ambiguity, then you'll be fine. Aside from the abundance of HR mistrust at this place, it is generally well-staffed with smart people. There is the opportunity to learn and grow if you are not bogged down by the mid-upper level management that is constantly entangled in politics and frankly a bit incompetent in leadership and people management skills. There are, of course, a few gems in that layer but the majority are indecisive and worried about their own place at the company. The power struggle is apparent and REAL. At the end of the day, I want to feel valued, and more importantly HEARD. That is why I made the decision to leave NerdWallet.

Pros

There's so many things I love about NerdWallet, but the best part is the people. You get a really great blend of people who are easy to work with, want to help you out, want to see the company and team succeed. I've worked at the company a while and haven't see any yelling, any scandals, people just genuinely care for each other here. I also really love the support parents get here. The salary and the work life balance are amazing too. The CEO is super cool, really down to earth and is also a quality person. This is really a place to grow your career and be a kind person. I obviously can't mention any of the revenue numbers, but things are going really well internally. There's a lot of opportunity for growth not just for the company, but for you as a person. Would really love to get more friends to work here to be honest. For engineering, the interviews aren't too difficult if you know what you're doing. I've observed NerdWallet cares more whether you're a nice person with a good attitude than if you can code bubble sort on a whiteboard from memory. No white board problems either!

Cons

I would also echo a concern that other reviewers wrote: the product doesn't have the greatest of direction. It's really tough to figure out how the product is going to grow when you're creating something for the consumer that's doing something new but I want to see more value add beyond SEO'ing static pages and moving around components. It's apparently coming. Will update the review in a year.

Pros

NW takes care of its employees compensation and benefits-wise and is generally a good place to work if you can stand the lack of direction and forward progress. Work life balance is generally respected and encouraged, which is great since in reality not a lot of ambitious or roadmap work happens. People are generally smart and mission driven. There is a lot of lip service to inclusion and belonging. It's overall a nice place to work with good compensation and comfortable work environment in most of the orgs. Always has glimmerings of what might --- good vision and mission.

Cons

Woefully incompetent senior leadership. There are a few good senior leaders, but several terrible ones that aren't handled. There is a lack of direction in product or even an understanding of how product is developed. Every attempt at forward progress is met by indecision, lack of deciders (or it coming down to Tim since he serves as ceo/cpo/coo) and lack of basic communication and coordination. Ultimately, a lot of the issues originate with the founder/CEO so they're hard to move past until he can mature or hire (and retain) a leader who has what he lacks.