Better Reviews

3.2

39% would recommend to a friend

(3,164 total reviews)
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Vishal Garg

28% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Better has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 3,164 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Better employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
3 Dec 2021

Sacking at least 9% of staff...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The only pro is that I literally have to write 5 words in this section, honestly not even a pro.

Cons

This man, the CEO of the company fired 9% potentially more of the company and got a massive raise for himself. Tried to play it off as if he was sad for this was his second time doing it. Disgusting person, never work for this monster.

3.0
4 Dec 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Highest salary I've made to date. - Stock options that looked really good 6 months ago. - Free lunch. - Massive codebase; you can learn a lot about refactoring at scale.

Cons

- Poor to nonexistent company culture; we still don't have any core values (stated or otherwise) and leadership offers very little real transparency. Before the pandemic we at least sometimes went to bars with other coworkers, but we don't even have that now. Extremely cold and mercenary. - Individual innovation is discouraged. - Repeated, unexpected layoffs based on imperfect performance metrics. - Have to watch the internet react to said layoffs with calls to boycott the company, which would make stock options worth less than the taxes employees paid to exercise them. - Massive codebase; you have to learn a lot about refactoring at scale without causing fires. - Virtually nonexistent coaching towards real career growth. - Very low probability of any recognition for great work, fostering a culture of mediocrity. - This is, at the end of the day, a mortgage company. You aren't going to invent anything new here, just streamline business processes and integrate with third parties until your eyes bleed.

2.0
8 Aug 2020

It’s all a facade

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Pros

Inexpensive benefits, lunch and wfh stipend

Cons

Inexperience management, lack of industry knowledge, no transparency Don’t fall for all of the 5 star reviews you see on here. Most are written by HR and friends. One thing this company is great at is the marketing and keeping up with a fake image. This company is managed by recent college grads who started with the company and promoted within 6 months. Note maybe about 85% of the company including ALL levels of management has zero industry experience. We have former yoga and dance instructors, substitute teachers, hotel concierge and baristas communicating with borrowers and trying to close loans. And then you have managers who has never managed a team before playing favorites and violating so many HR rules. Let’s be honest, this company is only thriving because rates are at an all time low and business is practically falling into everyone’s laps at the moment.

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