Decent company despite having a more corporate size - Senior Software Engineer SoFi Employee Review

4.0
Oct 28, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The culture is quite decent. People here are productive, but not being worked to death (at least in my group). There is a good understanding of WLB. Everyone in general is helpful and trying to contribute to a good product. The product/services offerings have a great potential for positive impact.

Cons

SoFi has a good eye/culture towards keeping their tech the biggest advantage over the traditional competitors, but they do struggle to move quickly like smaller startups sometimes. There is some amount of tech debt to catch up on, but the teams are doing their best to adapt. My understanding is that a lot of the tech debt is from a few years ago where there was a shake-up in personnel going all the way up to the top.

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SoFi Response
5y
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience at SoFi with us! We're happy to hear it's been a positive one so far. We encourage you to share your feedback about efficiency with your manager and/or People Business Partner. If you come across any other areas for improvement, please feel free to relay them to your PBP, manager, or email glassdoor@sofi.org. Happy to have you as part of the SoFi family!

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2.0
Jun 6, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You are only required to work from the office 1 day of the week and the rest from home. The Benefit package is great. The company has free snacks, fruits and drinks at the office and it provides the employees with lunch at least once a month while at the office.

Cons

You are literately a modern day slave with low pay and a tone of work. After a few months you have to get upskilled (more work) without any additional compensation. You are constantly evaluated: First call resolution is huge, the goal is for the member not to have to call back in at least a week. The company wants the call to last less than 5 minutes (or you get dinged). The company wants the members to respond to the surveys and if they don't it counts against you. if you go on chats, you will have to serve maneuver between two different once at the same time. You ONLY get a 30 minute lunch break and two 15 minute breaks. It is difficult to go to the restroom because while on the phones there is NO actual bathroom disposition and so you will get dinged and if it takes you longer than 5 minutes you get a message from intrudium informing you that you are out of adherence. The technology is the worse I have ever had to work with. It uses a program called Zscaler that is constantly disconnecting and when it does, it interrupts all of the other programs that are required to work with, in which case you have to inform WFM that you are having tech issues either by telephone or by sending a Workflow and hope it gets approved. While in training you are informed that you will only get paid up to 1 hr while having a tech issue. Workflows are huge and used for everything, including if you are suppose to clock out for the day but you are still on a call and it makes you go over 5 minutes (or you get dinged). Putting in for PTO or Sick Time is also not easy either, it's all about the companies needs so, hopefully you will get approved or maybe not. H.R. is only there a bit while you are hired and of course if you are let go but other than that, not sure what they do because there is no real connection.

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SoFi Response
5d
Hi there, thank you for leaving a review. We're sorry your experience didn't match your expectations and encourage you to reach out to glassdoor@sofi.org to discuss your review in more detail.
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