Candidly Reviews

4.7

95% would recommend to a friend

(31 total reviews)

Laurel Taylor

100% approve of CEO

92% positive business outlook

Candidly has an employee rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars, based on 31 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Candidly employee rating is 22% above average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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31 reviews
1.0
26 July 2022

Hostile, too many politics

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Opportunity to make an impact at a small company

Cons

People are openly hostile to each other and, honestly, just mean. Imagine people in their 30s and 40s gossiping about each other. It feels more like a high school lunch room than a professional work environment. I even saw someone get so frustrated by the toxicity that they quit and left on the same day. Tons of instability and turnover. Financially, focusing on the student loan space also didn’t make sense with payment suspension going on. They also have a practice where they closely count how many hours you do each day, which felt like I was constantly being watched/ surveilled.

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Candidly Response
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We take all feedback seriously, and have discussed your comments with the senior leadership team. As a management team we do not tolerate inappropriate behavior and immediately investigate and take action when needed. In the past two months, we have built out the resources within our People team to ensure that we continue to develop our practices in accordance with our values. Like many mature, software as a service companies that offer professional services related to enterprise implementations and product integration (we are largely integrated into third party applications), we are required to track time spent on client deliverables in accordance with client contracts and billing requirements. The student loan payment moratorium has both provided a temporary reprieve on payments and interest but has also created ongoing borrower confusion and uncertainty, and has elongated the pay down horizon by an average of three years for most borrowers (the average pay down is already 17 to 20 years). We remain steadfast in our mission to help borrowers achieve a debt-free future, during this moratorium and beyond. The moratorium has not solved the student debt problem for the 47M Americans who have aspired to change their lives through the power of education, and financed their pursuits as an alternative to not attending college at all. In fact, our borrowers, on average, are struggling with over $50,500 of student debt with many users struggling with debt that far exceeds their total annual earnings. We are here to serve our users and our customers, and we are committed to creating an exceptional experience for our employees that bring this mission to life. Candidly has experienced very little voluntary turnover during a period of significant growth over the last three years. It is clear that your experience was counter to all of the values we hold so dear. Thank you for your feedback, which helps us to be a better organization. Posted on behalf of Candidly CEO, Laurel Taylor
5.0
29 July 2022

I love working here

Recommend
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Pros

More than two years ago, I started as an intern at FutureFuel.io with a lot of passion but not a lot of applicable experience. Since then, with some hard work and great mentoring, I built towards a larger role at the company: from an intern to part-time Data Analyst to full-time Data Scientist. To bottomline my experience so far: - Plenty of opportunities to grow skills and responsibilities - Great team-first culture - Awesome leadership (seriously, I have never felt out of the loop or like we weren't headed down a successful path) - Very fair compensation for company size and stage of growth - Remote work done right!

Cons

There are few, if any, cons. One thing that I would like to see is more in-person opportunities to connect (both work-related and not) as the company grows.

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