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
5.0
Jun 3, 2023

Solid place to work at

Recommend
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Pros

Culture is fantastic and everyone is mission motivated. It's an environment that values moving fast and working on things that matter.

Cons

The company has a large amount of tech debt which slow things down. There's a lot of initiatives to improve this but there's a lot of code and logic that just needs to be rewritten.

2.0
Apr 15, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

They give you money in exchange for your time

Cons

Phoney culture of positivity No real opportunities for advancement based on skill/aptitude, only based on how much you suck up High turn over rate Micromanaging Lots of meetings about meetings and people talking in circles

1.0
Nov 18, 2022

Terrible

Recommend
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Pros

Last minute loans available if approved

Cons

Terrible management and employees. Employees were not trained well and did not know what they were doing. Company was constantly changing things which caused a lot of confusion. Management was very unorganized and unprofessional, you could easily tell there was a lot of miscommunication. Nobody ever seemed to know what they were doing and what the proper procedures and protocols were. It was always complete chaos and nobody was ever on the same page. Did not pay well for the amount of work employees were expected to do.

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