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

Recommend
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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.

2.0
May 31, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, good projects and smart engineers

Cons

Company does not value loyalty, they laid off the best and the brightest who have given years of their loyalty to the company. Instead they kept people who can show off the fact they have done lots of work to higher ups. Dirty politics, and lots of blame game recently, unlike before when it would be more transparent and more collaborative. That is what happens when you grow this fast this quick, the culture nosedives. Quality has deteriorated, and morale is low which was not the case before. Pay inequality based on gender still exists and is really a problem.

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