Upstart reviews

3.6

50% would recommend to a friend

(110 total reviews)
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Dave Girouard

73% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

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1.0
Nov 21, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Remote work - Paid holidays

Cons

- Low pay, if you like living paycheck to paycheck after overtime then this is place for you. You'll be lucky to get $1 raise per year. - You're not promoted based off your work, people get promoted based off favoritism. - Its a dead-end job, you can only move up L-2 and then you're stuck. if you unfortunate enough to get to L-3, then you will be overwhelmed with the scattered documentation and the unhelpful systems that are used. - No support from leadership, they see it as complaining and will start penalizing your quarterly performance review because you didn't agree with them.

4.0
Oct 31, 2023

Great place to work, for the most part!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Innovative company, great technology, and some fun perks.

Cons

Very fast moving - leadership can be extremely demanding. Company OKR's are unrealistic, and are often missed. This can impact bonus payouts.

3.0
Sep 21, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- A good place to get RoR experience - Remote friendly - Some smart folks, though that's changing

Cons

- Business has suffered greatly with high interest rates and lack of adaptation - equity compensation very poor for most who joined after IPO - Becoming very ex-Amazon heavy - Amazon on the resume is nearly a requirement now - Lots of projects that lack value - building things fast to keep everyone busy and feed the "speed habit" - Financial rewards are very top-heavy - too much for the leadership, too little for the folks who build the product

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