Kabbage reviews

4.2

82% would recommend to a friend

(284 total reviews)
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Rob Frohwein

85% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Kabbage has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 284 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Kabbage employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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284 reviews
2.0
Jun 30, 2014

Lots of perks but No Work Life Balance and poor leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The pay is good and it's a very open and fun environment. Catered lunches, nerf guns, community outreach, etc.

Cons

Expect to work very very long hours here. If you want to have a life, this isn't the place for you.I believe they cater lunches so that they can get more work out of people. They do not value their customers and the integrity of the leadership is questionable.

2.0
Mar 27, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Kabbage is small, and has a startup-like atmosphere with all the trappings that that entails. They have lots of cash to spend on company perks like beer kegs, yoga classes, free snacks and lunch, etc. Just like any startup you'll be asked to do a lot, and learn a lot more, very quickly. Your access to C-levels is unprecedented, and its possible to give your career a big boost if you perform somewhat well and can play a good political game. Culturally, the office is a giant frat-house, a point that some might consider a perk. They play hard, and work even harder.

Cons

The frat-house culture lends itself to cliques and deep personal biases within the company. In my time there, I saw people promoted, demoted, and fired based on their "fit", rather than on their performance. Project managers could not stay ahead of the developers, for the most part because the business kept changing their minds. When they'd finally pull the trigger, developers and QA are stuck working nights and weekends to get it done. Kabbage doesn't iterate they "innovate". If a project wasn't a success out the gate, it is gutted and re-implemented in a different technology, usually without any core changes. This also leads to frequent nights and weekends at the office. And again, success of a project was a perceived thing, there were no metrics for performance of code either. The technology they use has more to do with who C-levels like the most that month, and what resume-fodder they want to play with next, and not with what fit the needs of the product. They pay homage to Agile by holding stand-ups and having scrum teams, but in practice its a waterfall process with smaller deadlines. Compensation was good, but considering the hours you put in, should be higher. Benefits are not great, but they expected the perks to soften that somewhat. There is no work-life balance at Kabbage, only work. If you're not willing, or able, to put in the hours, it will count against you.

1.0
Apr 4, 2020
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Pros

1. Good Location and Nice Perks

Cons

1. I hated working in I felt was a racist organization. 2. In my opinion, the company and its senior leadership only cared about protecting their own, for example the head of HR 3. In my opinion, the CTO was arrogant, lacked leadership skills, was not updated with latest tech stack and had a hire and fire attitude 4. In my opinion, the latest financial crunch in the firm is only reflection of the monsters who exist at the top of the food chain here.

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Kabbage Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. Caring Deeply is the cornerstone of our culture, and we see that you feel passionately. We hope all Kabbagers feel their voice is heard, which is why we have ample channels for sharing questions, feedback and concerns. Whether you choose to discuss these topics with your manager, directly with our Co-founders at Town Hall, through our bi-annual Engagement Survey, or via the anonymous feedback link, we encourage our team members to take responsibility for what Kabbage is and what it becomes. We have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to any form of prejudice and embrace both diversity in thought and background. With the formation of our Diversity Council last year, we made a conscious and proactive decision to put this topic at the forefront in all our business objectives and interactions with each other and our community. As a result, we have been ranked as one of the youngest companies to earn a perfect score for the 2020 Corporate Equality Index. We know there is still more we can do, which is why we continuously and actively pursue ideas brought to us by Kabbagers and the Diversity Council. Thanks again for your review.
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