Prosper.com reviews

-If you want to do good work, if you are good at what you do, if you care about your career and the work you do, then this place is not for you. -The 'unlimited time off' policy is just a ruse they use to not have to pay out time off when employees leave. - no room for internal mobility - Terrible middle management who generally don't actually manage. Better brush up on your 'managing up' literature. - Very male dominated work force, lack of diversity. - Feels a little like a totalitarian government at times, it's the exec committees way or the highway - They are not interested in new ideas or technologies. They are a tech company perfectly content to be rooted in outdated technology. - Development is gruelingly slow, and poor decisions get made in favor of outdated looking and performing products. - No analytics, it's nearly impossible to see if your work was effective as no one can decipher the analytics we do have, and no one is owning analytics that we should have. - Do not rock the boat here or it will come back to bite you.

Upper management has been influenced by all these reviews going around about ex-CTO and had to take a step which they shouldn't have. All the reviews on glassdoor about ex-CTO and the folks he hired are written by older useless employees who did not had any role in what the new team was able to achieve. They (old employees) never tried to gel with the team and kept on complaining and writing these false review about culture and ethics. Just to give context I would explain the recent review written on glassdoor which says "Like 100 hour weeks with no upward mobility?". Yes there were some folks who worked long hours, but to achieve technological hurdle which Prosper was not able to achieve in last few years. There were multiple failed attempts for re-writing platform and whole teams were fired for being unsuccessful. But what we ("CTO Gang" according to old employees) were able to re-write 80%for public facing features and achieve success. None of the old employees had worked 80-100 hours per week. Whatever we did was for the love of our CTO, he was not a dictator. This has been a company where people talk more on glassdoor then in office. I would appeal to other employees to write your views so that these fake reviews are stopped.