Above Lending Reviews

3.1

46% would recommend to a friend

(62 total reviews)

41% positive business outlook

Above Lending has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 62 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Above Lending 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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62 reviews
1.0
3 Nov 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is strong, and there is growth opportunity if you’re one of the lucky free who survive.

Cons

They lay off around 30% of the team on an annual basis for “performance”. They laid off most of sales, and much of engineering, HR, and other essential teams this year, including many high-ranking individuals, such as the head of talent acquisition and the Chief Credit Officer. No one is safe, and leadership is inept at evaluating performance, retaining talent, and running the business. The parent company, CKC, and the CEO of the sister company, Beyond, treat people of all ranks like trash. They will call employees s middle curse at them. They will terminate employees at a moment’s notice for simple mistakes or for objecting to the inhumane treatment. I have never seen a similarly aggressive, ineffective, hostile, or non-inclusive management group as this. Also, “unlimited PTO” means 2 weeks if you’re lucky. It’s just so they don’t have to pay out PTO for everyone they fire. And work-life balance is awful. Expect 50 hours a week for analyst, and 60+ for everyone above that. Seriously, if you doubt any of this, look up any ex-Above employees (of which there are many) on LinkedIn.

1.0
4 Feb 2024

Bad place to have on your resume. Toxic and pointless.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work for most people

Cons

This place wants to project itself as a cut throat environment but no one really wants to work there anyway. There’s no company culture. No all-hands meetings, company events, etc. They like to pretend they are a tech company but this is definitely not a tech company. They don't even have an app and most of the business is done over the phone. There’s no leadership. There’s not even a CEO. The CFO supposedly runs things but is nowhere to be seen. The private equity group that owns the place likes to swap out leadership every so often so there’s no sense of a coherent strategy in place. There is no corporate vision to be found. No one knows what the point of working there is. They fire and demote people often but also no one wants to be there anyway so people leave as soon as they can. There are maybe 3 people who have worked there more than a year. These are all serious red flags. Do not work ant Above unless you are desperate, and even then you should keep looking for something else so you can leave as soon as you can.

1.0
10 Jan 2024

Worst managed company I've ever seen.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Getting to work in Fintech

Cons

The worst managed company I've ever seen. From directors up to c suite, nobody knows what they are doing. Half of the people in power got the there via nepotism. They have forced most of the company out via layoffs. Anyone else left is actively trying to leave. The CTO is the biggest joke. The tech team has done nothing but gone downhill since they joined due to there lack of experience being a leader. All leadership will say one thing to your face then do the opposite behind your back. I would rather be unemployed then ever work in that toxic environment the company calls culture.

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