Great benefits, toxic leadership in engineering - Senior Software Engineer Rocket Employee Review

3.0
Jan 22, 2024
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Pros

Benefits were great, pay competitive

Cons

The ISMs are pretty decent as far as guidelines go- but the culture Dan Gilbert created is pretty toxic and problematic for a changing workforce. People would have a problem when i would say “user” when talking about someone using our product, but then had no problems saying things like “gump it” for “dumb it down”, or my favorite- their central tech support is “the guy”. Many of these because they are holding on to Dans culture. I really wanted to like working here , i enjoyed my team, but my management chain was all white cis het men, who were just more problematic than the last. Heard many horror stories throughout engineering.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Knowledge rich, great culture, and a lot of remarkable people to work with

Cons

if you're in sales, you will not have much of a life outside of your team, but that's on you to have a good time with them

3.0
Jul 6, 2026
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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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