Upstart reviews

Corporate politics are terrible with nearly all advancement opportunities given based on who you know vs skills and experience.

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.