Upstart reviews

3.7

53% would recommend to a friend

(389 total reviews)
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Dave Girouard

78% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Upstart has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 389 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Upstart employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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389 reviews
4.0
Jun 1, 2023

Good company in struggle

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Pros

100% remote. Good colleagues. Many learning chances. Sprint planning is well organized. The engineers are learning and catching up with software development standard.

Cons

Unexpected layoff with no transparency. Short of quality assurance and dev ops, so engineer needs to do a lot of errands other than focusing on business logic.

1.0
Apr 8, 2023

Wrecked ship

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Pros

I would say only remote work for now. 401k is decent

Cons

- several of high performers and first 50 employees were laid off. That tells you can be booted no matter how good you perform - constant reorgs - no tech standards - no roadmap - toxic culture people throwing you under the bus - lot of politics. Managers who didn't perform are still there - rsu down

5.0
Feb 21, 2023
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Pros

A company that truly doesn't micromanage. Exactly at my 6 month mark my manager asked me what I wanted to do next so they could start preparing me.

Cons

Currently layoffs are happening back to back and there is no rhyme or reason for who is next to go. And when it is time you receive an email at 7:30am that not even your manager is aware of.

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