OnDeck Reviews

Pros

When evaluating an opportunity I think through the following items:

Industry:
OnDeck is a FinTech company that has disrupted an industry by bringing in excellent customer experience, speed, advanced technology, and has set a new standard that large banks simply did not provide. An example is the Chase partnership where OnDeck powers Chase's small business lending by licensing its proprietary technology. The company has announced another bank partnership in the pipeline - an increased role and impact for technology!

Impact:
Employees are motivated by the opportunity to help small business owners grow their business, hire employees, provide for their families, and realize the American dream.

CEO:
Noah is very personable, approachable, thoughtful, and open to listening to employee ideas. He greets you by name if you walk by each other. Overall, he really cares about his employees and is very passionate about the mission of OnDeck.

Leadership:
- Technology leadership is very strong. Highly approachable and personable, they really look after the satisfaction and well-being of their employees. Tech Leads & Architecture play a vital role in the strategy and design of any tech initiative to ensure implementations are scalable and reusable.

- The Product Managers are high caliber and great leaders, many have tech backgrounds and PMs sit directly with the tech teams, which increases overall collaboration and effectiveness of the teams.

- The Sales leadership essentially built the sales teams from the ground up and bring an infectious level of passion to work everyday and care about developing their team. Important to have a solid revenue generation machine.

Growth and Exit Opportunities:
Tuition reimbursement program, tech talks, exposure to technologies, conferences (like AWS), career development tracks. Regarding exit opportunities, the caliber is high as a few of the engineers and analytics folks went to Google and Facebook after a few years at OnDeck.

Overall Culture:
Despite layoffs earlier in 2017, the outlook for 2018 looks definitively better. Great place to work, tech culture with snacks and beer, impromptu happy hours, 2 great holiday parties / yr. Ultimately it's the people that really matter and OnDeck has great people.

Pros

Competitive Salary, Work/Life Balance, Employee Appreciation, Work from Home when Needed, Great Benefits

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you're doing. I love coming to work every day.

Pros

The people here are what have made my experience a great one so far. In my every day work I’m surrounded by bright and thoughtful people who are always willing to help and share their knowledge. I think that is something taken for granted and you do not get at other companies. Work/life balance is good and I’ve seen improvements in the culture here over the past 1+ year since the layoffs.

Advice to Management

Keep moving the company forward and continue to build transparency across teams. The NYC office also needs a refresh.

Pros

There were lots of smart friendly people.

Pros

Great working culture, talented people

Pros

Great culture. Open and accessible across different teams and departments including senior leaders. Bit of an entrepreneurial spirit.

Pros

- Flexible work schedule
- Snacks

Pros

Casual Attire
Location (New York, VA and Denver)
Opportunities - IF you are male

Advice to Management

Think outside of the box in terms of new product which will maximize the company's profit and retain employees and keep them motivated, engaged and loyal.

Pros

Most people are nice and friendly; Ample opportunities to grow and learn; good numbers of Happy hours and Parties; You get to wear multiple hats

Advice to Management

Focus on what's important now. Trickle management goals all the way down to all departments in its true form and have the right measures at all level to quantify it; make data or insights speak for itself. Make sure upper management gets a direct and honest feedback from leaf-level employees. Most times not getting any feedback is NOT a good sign. Donot lower the hiring bar, smart and great people are what drives OnDeck.

Pros

Helping small business get loans
Office has snacks and cool desks
Location has a lot of food / bar options