Upstart reviews

3.6

50% would recommend to a friend

(109 total reviews)
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Dave Girouard

73% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

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4.0
May 28, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Very great job benefits and compensation were amazing

Cons

Many mass lay offs and lots of change

2.0
May 10, 2024

Poorly managed engineering

Recommend
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Pros

The pay was good. The perks were good.

Cons

Bad engineering culture. More so about the process and productivity versus the actual people and personalities. However, there was a definite sense of who they value and who they don't. Very poor management. My perspective was limited to Senior Managers and Directors. Seems almost as if many never held positions of that level. Secret room planning and technical strategy that hardly ever made it down to the individual contributors. The IC input was more of a checkbox. Very narrow focused when implementing new tooling and technologies. Maybe half the use cases were ever even taken into consideration. Extremely hard to be productive in Upstart Engineering specifically the Platform division. Teams simply could not own end to end and function autonomously due to Silos and nested Silos within the organization structure.

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