Earnest Reviews

4.0

70% would recommend to a friend

(168 total reviews)

Matt Palese

84% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Earnest has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 168 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Earnest employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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168 reviews
4.0
17 May 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flex work hours, friendly staffs

Cons

Amount of the work, low chance of face-to-face interaction with colleagues

2.0
11 Jan 2023

People keep leaving

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Remote first. Pay is decent, benefits are ok. Great colleagues, everyone is highly skilled. No expectation to work overtime or on weekends. Annual full company meetup.

Cons

You have to accrue PTO which includes sick days. They crack down on being gone even a few hours if you are sick. They blindside employees with PIPs here if they do not meet standards which were never clearly communicated by the managers. Leadership from Heads, GMs, VPs to C-level do not take responsibility for ineffective systems and harmful culture of scapegoating. You never know when you might fall out of favor and then you are next. The entire design and research org turned over in a year and almost all the PMs quit within months of each other. Other team members have to pick up the slack and are expected to keep up the same pace. If you can keep your head down to do your work and are ok with not being supported by your managers in the product org, then you might do ok here.

1.0
20 Aug 2015

Just say no

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free food? Some good people?

Cons

Everything about this company is a mess. No one knows how to run a company. Managers come and go, new hires come and go, objectives come and go. If I had a dollar for every time they told me to do something one way and then switched it a week later without telling anyone... Except for the numbers/underwriting departments no one has any idea what they're doing. You want a job where they clearly explain what to do? This isn't it. Help from other employees? Nah... but the employees are good at organizing themselves into cliques. I've heard the new "team lead" is the worst yet. Most passive aggressive corporate environment I've ever dealt with. And their whole website is BS. They lend to mostly white people, mostly men, and almost all making over 6 figures.

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