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      Bluevine

      Engaged Employer

      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

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      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
      1.0
      Apr 11, 2022

      Live up to your values

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The People. The teams at BlueVine are filled with amazing, genuine people that you can learn so much from. The Products. Building differentiated products for SMBs is challenging, but it can be extremely rewarding when you get it right. The Clients. Small business owners are incredible to work with and get to know. They face unique challenges and demonstrate incredible grit in building their businesses. Connecting with BlueVine clients opens your eyes to just how important small businesses are to their communities and the economy.

      Cons

      Leadership. There is an incredible gulf between the leadership team and a majority of employees. Issues that employees care and are concerned about fall on willfully closed ears in every format that feedback is received. Whether in small group settings or All Hands settings, the consistent response to uncomfortable but important questions are red herring arguments and abrasive and condescending tones that belittle employees' concerns and work to prevent topics from being brought up again. The fact that the same questions are raised time and time again indicates that people don't feel that they have received an honest answer or that their concern has been heard. Compensation. It is recognized across the organization that for most teams, compensation is consistently below market rate and merit increases are generally meager. This is confirmed by employees frequently interviewing elsewhere to benchmark their pay and by the employees that do ultimately leave and share with their peers and managers just how much of a delta there is. When this issue is raised to leadership by employees and hiring managers, it is met with the toxic and demoralizing response that working at BlueVine is not just about the money you make, but more importantly it is about the mission of what the team is trying to build. It is implied that if all you are worried about is money then you are not a culture fit for this "mission-driven" organization. It is as if it is physically impossible for employees to simultaneously care deeply about the mission of the organization while also caring about being paid fairly. Inequality. In parts of the organization, there is significant unconscious bias in leadership demonstrated consistently in hiring practices, lack of equal pay and career advancement for equal work, and microaggressions in day to day interactions. This is visible in the lack of diversity in both upper and middle management which has resulted in a lack of diversity of opinions. The presence of these factors are widely felt, observed, and discussed behind closed doors with little accomplished to counteract them despite calls for change. When incidents are reported to HR, nothing comes of it and those with influence in the organization are protected. Work-life balance. While of course it is not required to work long hours, the working hours needed to keep up with the workload are unsustainable. The workload is ever increasing as it is becomes more and more difficult to hire and retain employees due to uncompetitive compensation and an obstinate insistence that fully remote roles will not be allowed. The increased workload is framed as "growth opportunities", but your compensation never actually catches up to the level of responsibility that you have taken on. It was more common than not to work 14-16 hour days in addition to several hours on the weekend.

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      Bluevine Response
      4y
      Thank you for writing a review. It is evident to me that you care about Bluevine and want us to do better. I have read your post carefully and would like to address your key points: * Leadership team: We provide our employees with multiple public (All Hands, small group meetings) and private (anonymous suggestion box, one’s manager) communication channels to ask questions or voice concerns. We created these communications channels to encourage open dialogue and transparency, which we highly value. I’m sorry to hear of your perspective on the discussion. Bluevine employees are encouraged to reach out to the People team with any questions or concerns that they feel needs further clarification. * Compensation: We strive to provide a competitive total compensation package, which includes cash compensation, equity, paid time off, and medical benefits to attract and retain our employees who are so instrumental to our success. We continuously benchmark our compensation package to the market and, while I hear that the cash compensation was a source of dissatisfaction to you, we feel our overall rewards package is competitive. This has also been supported by our tremendous growth rate this past year, bringing Bluevine’s employee population to over 500! * Equality: Diversity, equity and inclusion is critical to our success and is personally important to me. As an organization we continuously strive and make concrete efforts to improve on this front. I would have appreciated learning more details related to the concerns you raised on the equality front. I welcome you to reach out to me directly. * Work-life balance: Bluevine is a high-growth company leveraging its unique value proposition to build an innovative organization poised to transform small business banking solutions. Given the fast pace of expansion Bluevine is experiencing, we are hiring as quickly as possible to ensure the workload is balanced while striving to achieve our future goals. We try to make sure our employees take time off via our paid time off program, to which we’ve added 4 flexible holidays and increased our paid vacation days from 9 to 11 per year. We also work with our managers to encourage employees to take time off. I appreciated hearing that despite your negative experience, you value the people at Bluevine, the products we build and the customers we serve. Thank you for your contribution to Bluevine while you were here and for your feedback, we always appreciate suggestions on how to improve. Yael Malek, Chief People Officer
      1.0
      May 18, 2021

      After almost 4 years, the company made me feel undignified

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      I enjoyed my time here, and most of the people were great. The sense of community and camaraderie was next level, people genuinely believe in Eyal's vision and you can tell people actually want to make a difference in our customer's lives. My manager was an absolute rockstar and helped me develop professionally in many many ways. BlueVine also offered me many opportunities to grow and 'climb' up the ranks. I started in a very entry level position and by year 2.5 I was a people manager, overseeing an entire department. I was exposed to lots of things and had the ability to propose new ideas and solutions to open ears almost constantly. Whether or not these proposals and ideas gained traction is a different story though...

      Cons

      After almost 4 years, I left BlueVine due to a career pivot. However, I provided a two week notice, and even continued to provide consultations for the org after my departure (I still have access+my laptop!) I made every effort to leave the org in a positive note and make sure my team and leadership would be set up for success. But I felt undignified and disregarded as I departed the company. In my experience, loyalty did not mean a whole lot to BlueVine. The company announced a profit sharing plan but with no details on disbursement dates for employees. Eventually these details came, albeit too late. Due to a 2 week difference between my departure and the first disbursement, I was told I was ineligible to receive anything. I thought that my time at BlueVine, and my contributions to the internal programs that made the profit sharing plan even possible, and the fact that I managed a team who enabled the company to rapidly scale during this period - I thought all of this would’ve warranted an exception. As a start up I feel exceptions were made often, policies were broken and bent when the org needed something. Many policies I tried to put in place for my department and cross-functions were regularly broken and bent, cited as 'business needs'. But when it comes to rewarding employees for work they’ve already put in, exceptions are simply 'not possible'. I left BlueVine due to a career trajectory change, but I worked super hard on my transition, finalizing new team member additions, and even interviewing prospective successors to my role. As mentioned earlier, I even continued to provide advice and the org even kept my access open + asked me to keep my laptop. As a show of good faith, I absolutely agreed to help out. Ultimately though, the ball was in BlueVine's court to determine if our relationship ended on a good note or a bad note, and I feel as though they chose to let it end on a bad note.

      1.0
      Jul 22, 2017

      Unprofessionalism

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Cant think of any pros to work here

      Cons

      Majority of upper managment employees will talk behind your back

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      Bluevine Response
      8y
      Thank you for taking the time to write a review and share your personal experience with us. We are sorry to hear that you feel your experience at BlueVine has been a negative one. We pride ourselves on the fair treatment of all our employees. At BlueVine, we understand that periods of high-growth and change can be stressful so we’re always working to identify opportunities to address challenges in the work environment. We encourage any employee to reach out directly to the People (HR) Team, a trusted leader or a member of the Culture Team to share their experience so that we can do whatever we can to address it.
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