Laughable Business Model and Bias Executive Team - Anonymous employee EVERFI Employee Review

2.0
May 17, 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are some great people at EVERFI, including the co-founder, Ray Martinez. EVERFI also does tackle some of the most challenging social issues and is happy to deploy resources to make sure training reaches students, even when the company is not monetizing. That's quite nice and also probably why the "company" suffers to remain profitable, which is sort of required when you take a 190M investment from TPG.

Cons

Like all of the other review state, the Executive Team is not diverse and the CEO and COO (Ellen) live a noticeably lavish lifestyle, which affords them the ability to do charity work vs. running a profitable business and paying people fairly. Working at a for profit organization that is not concerned with monetizing is privilege, which is something they fail to see. There are definitely favorites in terms of people but also resources and strategy are very unevenly distributed across business lines, making some business lines extremely weak in competitive markets. It's laughable that they have HR commenting that the reviews left here are false... They have a systemic problem with unfair treatment of employees (hence the turnover rate) and their products have become sub par because the company lacks focus and strategy.... There is also very little upward career advancement opportunities at this company.

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EVERFI Response
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2020 handed all companies an environment for difficult business decisions to ensure future viability. In a tough economic market, during a global pandemic, we provided merit based salary increases and bonuses to eligible employees this year. In the last six months, it has also been a top priority of our leadership: executives, department leaders and managers to ensure all teams are appropriately staffed for the growth we are witnessing. We're doubling down on our investments and we're currently hiring for many critical positions across the business. Like any organization, we continue to focus on areas of improvement. Feedback regarding compensation and benefits has been heard and acted on over the last year and we have taken action to benchmark our compensation to the market and make adjustments accordingly. In addition, our leadership team has heard and acted on feedback regarding management and recognition over the last year. If you have specific concerns, please reach out the Talent Department.

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