Bluevine reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(360 total reviews)
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Eyal Lifshitz

77% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Bluevine has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 360 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bluevine employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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360 reviews
5.0
Jul 24, 2018

So far, so good!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Overall experience has been positive. Growing up in a family small business, I'm especially proud of my role in helping small business owners with every day with working capital financing solutions. The company has grown tremendously and I look forward to what's in store for the future!

Cons

Typical growing pains associated with a company with our growth trajectory. Some recent turnover on the sales front but none to be considered "regrettable".

1.0
Jul 24, 2018
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Pros

A few colleagues & the espresso machine

Cons

Leadership: Fail to evaluate talent Terrible hiring decisions, awful promotions False sense of job titles and responsibilities False views of product effectiveness Underwriting team that’s grossly over powered Slow... slow.. slow Low ball offers Culture : No loyalty Take take take - work more, pay less Call center”y” vibe with a dash of broiler room All in all BlueVine hides behind its year over year growth and “fintech label” to mask what it truly is. From the outside BlueVine has been successful to this point, yes, funding just under 500M in 2017 but can almost guarantee they fall short of lofty goals in 2018 due to weak infrastructure, awful leadership, a dying culture and lack of general respect for individuals. The product team has failed to innovate much of anything. Slow & Expensive is only the surface, the back end process from submission to funded is where it gets scary. To sum up my experience .. if you’re willing to show up at 5AM, rip dials for 12 hours a day and shove grossly overpriced lines of credit down failing businesses throats you’ll be successful and can earn an average income for the Bay Area. If you’re willing to be a puppet and not have an opinion or think for yourself, you can even get promoted to manager after 2-3 years. Maybe. I encourage anyone to think it through before drinking the Kool-Aid.

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Bluevine Response
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While we unfortunately can't provide a more detailed response regarding a former employee in a public forum, we realize that a fast paced successful start-up environment isn't a good fit for everyone. We are grateful to the many BlueVine employees whose feedback and engagement has helped us get to where we are today and would welcome the opportunity to sit down so we can discuss your experience at BlueVine in more detail why you felt unable to share this feedback before we parted ways.
1.0
Jul 21, 2018

DO NOT JOIN IF YOU ARE AN ACCOUNT MANAGER OR IN ANY SALES ROLE

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are standing desks that work 50% of the time. You get Christmas presents that you have to pay taxes on. You get to sell really high interest financing to businesses. Don’t let the 4.5 stars fool you. This is a 220 person company with 24 reviews - often from folks who haven’t been around long enough yet. It’s at best a 2.9 star workplace. It was ONCE a good place to work. Not anymore.

Cons

From an account management/sales team perspective, their best and brightest have all left in the last couple of months. What remains is a group of mediocre people. My work life further deteriorated since these departures began. If you’re on the revenue team, your thoughts and perspective are not wanted. BlueVine wants you to shut up, put your head down and work. There’s zero opportunity for collaboration. It’s not your responsibility to think big. The risk department is so protected that when something goes wrong, it’s always the revenue team’s fault. Accountability = 0. In fact, it’s said that one of the people got pushed out because they spoke up on poor accountability. After that, everything here went south. I don’t think BlueVine has hit its target once this year. Each month is missed by a larger and larger window. There’s almost no professional development. There have been very lazy attempts to create this but the worst part about these attempts was rather than the management caring enough about the development of their people to do it themselves, they hired a 3rd party to come do very surface level generic “training sessions” instead. It’s so bad here that I’ve been interviewing elsewhere so I can escape the toxic culture of BlueVine. They just do a poor job investing in their people and they often make poor hiring decisions that negatively affect the entire team. Also the pay is lower than market rate and they know this but they have made a few increases to bring it closer to market rate but it’s still below. In addition to being responsible for your work, you are required to be responsible for your peers feelings as well. The CEO is odd. His interactions with people who work for his company are kept to a minimum. He literally has his own office away from the rest of the people in the company. Walls. Upward mobility = none, especially as an AM/AE. Getting promoted is almost impossible. And once you do finally get promoted, where you really promoted? No. You keep doing the same things. Nothing changes.

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Bluevine Response
7y
We are sorry to hear that you feel like your experience at BlueVine was a negative one. Unfortunately we can't address all of your concerns directly in this forum, but know that we take all current and former employee feedback seriously. We would welcome the opportunity to have you share this feedback directly with our people team so we can understand in more detail how your experience has been so different from other people on our team who have enjoyed their experience at BlueVine.
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