It's a trap - Licensed Mortgage Loan Originator Rocket Employee Review

1.0
Mar 1, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pros include exceptional SAFE training and onboarding to the company, albeit deceptive to what is to come after your first month. Excellent benefits and PTO. Diverse culture/people.

Cons

70 hour weeks (minimum 65 hours). Insane micromanagement. No more work-from-home. No breaks, can't be paused from your dialer for more than 2 minutes, not allowed to clock out for a lunch, forced to bring food to eat during "Academy" class time when I'm supposed to be learning banking technology. Anyone paused for over 2 minutes gets named and shamed in regional chat. Daily name and shame emails of lowest performers of the day (doesn't account for downtime due to class, appointments, illness, etc). Directors do laps around cubicles and watch everything you do. Cell phones not allowed on Foundation floor, director doesn't allow us to watch videos on second monitor while dialing. Required 40 transfers (cold calling and transferring call to licensed banker) per day when it is purely luck based on people picking up the phone. Market and interest rates are going up so less leads going around, leading to nobody to call by 3pm. 14 hour days. LOTS of Teams meetings throughout the day. Public humiliation instead of handling issues privately. I literally want to die every day.

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5.0
May 11, 2026
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Pros

Great benefits, cultural and pay.

Cons

Constantly changing, not necessarily a bad thing hut something to get used to.

3.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Strong technical stack and real ownership of enterprise reporting. Complex servicing and NPL data gives senior analysts room to build governance, dimensional models, and end-to-end pipelines with genuine business impact. Skilled peers and access to large regulated datasets (FNMA, FHLMC, HUD) that sharpen your craft.

Cons

Heavy reliance on undocumented legacy systems that fall on individual contributors to reverse engineer. Knowledge concentration creates single points of failure and inconsistent handoff when people leave. Org changes and shifting priorities can outpace documentation and process maturity.

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