OakNorth Reviews
Updated Jul 14, 2022
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- "CEO and CTO are idiots whose only merit is being able to sell themselves to gullible founders." (in 4 reviews)
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
* Innovative and uniquely positioned fintech - learnt more here in my first 12 months than in my past 6 years in my previous job * Mission-driven company (solving the "missing middle") with incredible client traction * Incredible opportunity and responsibility given, with ability to grow with the company
Cons
* As a growing startup, often doing things for the first time - so requires ability and desire to go beyond scope of role
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
You will sometimes get to be in the room with very interesting sales / client prospects
Cons
Many many, that are not worth disclosing out of fear of retribution
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Innovative Product Ambitious and collaborative team with A-players in their domains Ability to strategically deploy capital for growth
Cons
Credit component of product adds layer of complexity New offering to market translates to need for client education SaaS offering is relatively new so customers need to be bought into vision
- Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Great place to learn. Awesome exposure to different areas of the business OakNorth hires top talent, incredible co-workers Dynamic, constant change, huge growth Brilliant (new) management team that care for employee wellbeing
Cons
Light on equity options, hopefully this will change
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Proven leaders. White space. Maturing product. Great early customer wins. Salaries good and benefit packages improving. It is fun shaping a new industry. The founders story is compelling and I hope we stick to our core mission to level the playing field for credit decisions to get capital to deserving entrepreneurs
Cons
The companies strength is its diversity but this can also cause friction with different cultures and timezones when you are trying to grow so quickly. We used to lack focus but they seemed to have fixed that now.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
- Some of the smartest people you'll ever meet - Extremely hard working people - Ambitious people - Culture of high risk tolerance - will give upstart young players a chance - Extremely competitive nature - can rub the wrong people the wrong way -- can be very fun for others - Outgoing, friendly people (for the most part)
Cons
- Legacy culture is a bit slow moving in its shift without someone really making impact (which has happened of late) - Not the most affirmative confirmation -- not very compliment heavy culture (for the most part)
Continue reading - Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Great learning at the company
Cons
None that I can recall
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Understanding, intelligent and helpful managers
Cons
None seen as of now.
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Excellent salary, good growth opportunities
Cons
dynamic business model, continuous shift in future strategy
- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Best place to explore different technologies Top notch technical managers support Closely working with business requirements
Cons
frequent organizational changes and obvious changes in projects and scope
OakNorth Reviews FAQs
OakNorth has an overall rating of 3.2 out of 5, based on over 151 reviews left anonymously by employees. 50% of employees would recommend working at OakNorth to a friend and 47% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has decreased by -8% over the last 12 months.
50% of OakNorth employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated OakNorth 2.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.8 for culture and values and 3.1 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at OakNorth to be benefits, coworkers, career development and the cons to be management, culture, senior leadership.
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