Prosper.com reviews

In engineering, 80-100 hour weeks were mandatory, and not just at the tail end of projects. There was absolutely no work-life balance. In 2015 they hired a VP of engineering, later promoted to CTO who was openly racist, hiring 90+% people of his same ethnicity for all engineering positions. He would refuse to make eye contact with anyone he considered his lesser and reportedly would speak ill of english speaking employees in a foreign language. He hired multiple people at senior level who were not technically capable at an average level... seemingly based on race or prior association. Knowledge was hoarded among his favored group, and others who had been at the company were denied even access to look at their code.

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.