Achieve reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(913 total reviews)
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Andrew Housser and Bradford Stroh

77% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Achieve has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 913 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Achieve employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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913 reviews
4.0
Apr 29, 2023

Great but needs work

Recommend
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Pros

-When it's busy and rates are low there is a lot of money to be made. -They comp you deals when you take a vacation. -Work from home -5% 401k match up to $5k -Offices (if you go in) are new, with great standing desks, an awesome cafeteria, a perfect location off the 101 , and easy parking.

Cons

-Mgmt admit they read people's private Slack messages -Mgmt admit that they can find out who said what in “anonymous” surveys. -Mgmt jokes about how we are rocks and they will squeeze every last drop out of us. -Very few managers have actually done the job. They are outside hires, do the job for a month and take a team. -10 days of PTO per year for the first two years. -The quota is so high that on most 3-day weekends you will have to work the holiday. Taking away these 3 day weekends and low PTO in general leads to a bad work-life balance. -Schedule includes working a Saturday or Sunday and having Friday or Monday off. -Most people work at least 2 of their days off (weekends) a month. -Base pay is $14.50 an hour -You can miss quota by one deal and get put on a PIP. Have a quota of 30 loans in a month and you sell 29 and you get written up. They have had to adjust quota pretty much every month since December so half of the sales floor doesn’t get written up. -Mgmt seems to spend more time in meetings vs proactively listening to live calls and coaching. -Two directors have been hired and have quit for other opportunities in the past year. The current director has been here for a long time and has an archaic way of managing. This is the way we’ve always done it attitude. He’s a good guy but we could use a modern approach / fresh set of eyes on policies. -We have a phone system that is meant for salesforce lighting and we use legacy which causes constant issues. -Salesforce is broken. Some error causes most applications have a glitch that makes you have to re-enter a bunch of info. It's time-consuming and could lead to incorrect info on apps. It is inexcusable. How this is not an ECOA violation would be beyond me. -There is no room for advancement or raises. If you are in sales that's the gig you have. Doesn’t matter how many years or 100s of loans you’ve sold. Your base will never go up. The only progression is management.

1.0
Nov 11, 2022

Boiler Room

Recommend
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Pros

Good money if you don’t mind taking it on the chin every day for 6 days a week and grinding 10+hrs OT every week. New management and culture is a shadow of what it used to be. Upper management are bullies that only see you as a number and unit managers are hit and miss, sometimes you get lucky and sometimes you get a dud that makes your day to day painful and provides wrong information that you’re held accountable for. Also if you question anything or provide feedback or give suggestions(even when asked) that is in any way critical or not 100% positive, it will put a target on your back and will be taken as insubordination, disrespect, “whining and complaining”(even though weeks later they will happily announce if they happen to correct the issue you were criticized for bringing to their attention and act like heroes after threatening you for mentioning anything could be wrong..). If you can keep your head down, grind, and be a “yes” man 100% of the time and can keep your cool when management throws you a curve ball that cuts your pay in half that month, you should do just fine.

Cons

Poor poor poor work life balance, management, insanely strict compliance, required use of long scripts, high interest rates, favoritism, unpredictable income, no job security, and anything but praise may be cause for retaliation.

2.0
Oct 10, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work from home. Benefits are good.

Cons

They start by telling you you can make more money but starve you with no leads. Then they expect you to call over 100 leads a day and get 10 deals a week, but you get very few leads. You are calling the same beat-up leads over and over again.

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