Achieve reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(916 total reviews)
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Andrew Housser and Bradford Stroh

76% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Achieve has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 916 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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5.0
Oct 20, 2025

Rewarding career

Recommend
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Pros

Management is not micro managing

Cons

Hourly pay could be more competitive

1.0
Oct 9, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

There are many different departments at this company, each with its own culture, leadership style, and employee experience. I can only speak to my time within the Technology department, specifically the Product organization. Some teams are led by empathetic, highly competent managers who genuinely prioritize the well-being and growth of their people. These leaders build environments grounded in trust, respect, and collaboration—teams where individuals feel empowered to do their best work. My experience working with one such team has been one of the most rewarding chapters of my career.

Cons

So, why 1 star? Unfortunately, not all parts of the Product organization reflect those same values. One senior enterprise product leader in particular has created an exceptionally toxic and adversarial culture—driven by manipulation, dishonesty, and self-serving politics.
 This individual has engaged in a sustained campaign of bullying and sabotage directed toward a peer leader in an adjacent department. The behavior is not subtle—it is intentional, personal, and malicious. The goal appears to be clear: to discredit, undermine, and ultimately push that peer leader out of the organization. This campaign has included spreading false narratives, shifting blame for his own team’s failures, manipulating perceptions among executives, and encouraging direct reports to act with open hostility toward cross-functional partners. This leader’s conduct has created an adversarial and fearful dynamic that damages collaboration and morale company-wide. One of the most unethical aspects of this behavior has been deliberate interference in an adjacent team’s hiring process. This leader has repeatedly blocked the hiring of highly qualified candidates for a role that does not even report into their org, providing contradictory or nonsensical feedback as justification. The intent is plainly self-serving: to obstruct progress, weaken a peer’s credibility, and create an opening to install a personal friend in the role. That “friend” was previously employed by the company and was let go due to lackluster performance and a pattern of toxic, combative behavior—issues that are well-documented with HR. Attempting to rehire this individual not only violates basic ethical standards but signals a profound disregard for the company’s cultural values and its existing employees’ well-being. Multiple reports about this product leader’s behavior have been made to HR. Senior leadership—including the co-CEOs—are fully aware of the situation, AND YET no action has been taken. Its sickening. This lack of accountability sends a damning message: that bullying and unethical conduct are tolerated (if not quietly protected and rewarded), even when they cause real harm to teams and the business. Corporate cowardice at its finest. 

The impact has been severe. Morale among cross-functional partners has cratered, and the broader organization is suffering from eroded trust and disengagement. The candidate experience has become embarrassing—qualified, enthusiastic professionals endure drawn-out interview processes only to be rejected because of one person’s petty, politically motivated interference. In a highly competitive hiring market, this damages the company’s reputation and credibility with top talent. At this point, the issue has moved beyond culture—it’s a genuine business risk. One leader’s unchecked bullying, manipulation, and obstruction have jeopardized team health, talent retention, and the company’s ability to attract the kind of people who could help it grow.

1.0
Sep 11, 2025

stay away

Anonymous employee
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Pros

it's a job i guess

Cons

everything. They kept on people who weren't working, promoted people who made numerous mistakes with no repercussions, kept hard working people in the same position cause they knew the next person like that wouldn't come around for a while. They kept on known domestic abusers. They're sinking and pretty sure they sold off to a private equity group, their new CFO cut so many budgets and employees don't get good raises for years. They ALL pretend to be working and network via inflated purported egos, They move the corporate ladder where it suits them. They post fake job postings and promote the candidate they had in mind for it from the start. Everything from top to bottom, they are trash scammers. Constantly promoted DEI over people who are actually qualified (and I'm a girl and can say that). This place is a sinking ship.

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