Typical start up with ideology over practices and processes - Customer Experience Associate Propel Employee Review

2.0
21 Jun 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fintech experience gives you great insight into banking and skills that are not otherwise available to CX workers, so that was great (debit card compliance, insight and training on debit rails and various banking mechanisms, etc). Company swag was really quality stuff and made remote work comfortable.

Cons

The idea behind the main product that was being developed while I was there was compelling at first but unfortunately, the company valued its ideas of what they thought it should be over the critical feedback we received from customers in its beta run. The customer research team had questionable methodology that included leading questions and a lack of economic insight and when CX associates pointed this out (as the team who received the most critical feedback directly from customers), we were continuously dismissed. While other teams seem to have great benefits and culture, CX was treated very differently and often unable to participate in things like the lunch and learns, etc. In a painful irony, the product was for lower income folks in the US which the company had defined at the income level they paid CX staff.

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5.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Mission driven company - Good compensation for the public benefits space - Strong technology base (new frameworks, easy release process) - Exciting projects and investments

Cons

- Company can be dependent on federal politics / relationships with other players in SNAP space

5.0
28 Feb 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great people: humble, mission driven, supportive, kind - Great mission: helping low income Americans make it through the month, every month. The team is very focused on user empathy and making a positive difference. - Profitable and reinvesting in growth and making a positive difference. - High autonomy, ownership & trust environment

Cons

- 10 year old code base that is being improved, but is not fully unified yet. - Sometimes can be silos; cross team collaboration is being worked on.

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