May 24, 2018
Toxic culture in Business Development
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Credit Karma
Part of Intuit
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3.9
70% would recommend to a friend
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85% approve of CEO
56% positive business outlook
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Credit Karma has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 440 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Credit Karma employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).
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440 reviews
3.0
Apr 22, 2018
Recommend
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Pros
Good perks. Awesome company events. The business model is still good. Lots of big data use cases in important domains. Good enough infrastructure supports. Can potentially be a great place for a data engineer to learn and to grow.
Cons
I only focus on data engineering and advanced analytics, as I do feel I have the technical authority to comment. There are lots of tech debts. Quite a few managers at some very important positions are clueless about the future, as they have been struggling to just prevent things from falling apart, and to maintain the status quo. They are not good enough at telling the quality of data engineering work to reward the right people accordingly. This is the basic requirement for a healthy environment to make things improve over time, but it takes a lot to have it right. Engineers initiated data projects with good visions are almost nonexistent, because there are not that many experienced and good data engineers who have stayed long enough to get to the bottom of the debt infested systems. Even if they do, they are blocked from knowing the broader context due to the heavy management involvement aiming to address the complicated coordination process. This leads to data systems that are not as simple/elegant as it can be, which reinforces more complicated management process and the practice of micromanaging. And this is a vicious cycle. Suboptimal data systems may work ok when the company was at smaller scale by resorting to more manual processes, but the same level of quality can easily push things beyond return at the current scale. This is yet a another less recognized scaling problem specifically for data engineering. There have been major confusions in important data projects not resolved for a long time, and the managers just started working on something else. Over time, data engineers are increasingly shielded from the real problems but only exposed to the managers' limited and confused perceptions. As a consequence, some important but hard problems are left unsolved forever. And it will keep dragging down the quality of the entire system. This can be a major roadblock for new business partnership, and revenue expansion.
5.0
Apr 20, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
- Smart, funny, and helpful people all around. Almost everyone here is a pleasure to work with. There is a special culture at Credit Karma: the abudance of clubs, organizations, and events encourage people to form friendships that span beyond the workplace. - A mission you can be proud about. It's rare that a company has an honest and proven dedication to helping its users like Credit Karma does. Countless times while wearing my CK swag, I've had random people on the street stop me and tell me how much they appreciate the help Credit Karma has provided them. This provides a ton of motivation to wake up on Monday morning or put in that extra work to get your features launched. - Top talent. Many of the engineers here could work for almost any tech company, and most of them will go out of their way to teach you new things. - Executive committee are mostly humble, approachable and willing to listen. There are office hours and a general "open door policy" that provide opportunities to provide your feedback to the top dogs. - Generally a very good work-life balance. There are times when you're expected to put in the extra hours required for the good of the business (yearly rush to launch big new stuff in January), but for the most part schedules and deadlines are empathetic toward individual contributors. - Willingness to change and adapt new technologies. Most of eng leadership regonize the abudance of tech debt, and encourage us to tackle issues creatively and with new (infrastructure approved) technologies like Docker, Scala, Typescript, and React. - Coffee bar, events squad, and workplace services in general all do a fantastic job. - Those snacks though
Cons
- Unclear and inconsistent promotion requirements. The guidelines for Senior level and above promotions continue to change throughout the years. There also seems to be inconsistency in these requirements across teams and departments. - Work From Home policy is generally non-existant. Some teams allow people to WFH several days a week, while others strictly forbid it or only allow for the occasional WFH day with advanced notice.
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