Bilt Rewards reviews

2.5

28% would recommend to a friend

(53 total reviews)
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Ankur Jain

30% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Bilt Rewards has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 53 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Bilt Rewards employee rating is 33% below average for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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53 reviews
2.0
Jan 22, 2025

Going Sideways

Recommend
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Pros

Comp and people. A skeleton crew of the best in every category pumping out features. I am glad that I worked at Bilt. I am also glad that I no longer work at Bilt. Bilt is a special company and works every day as if it was the last to solve real problems. I hope that Bilt continues to grow and succeed.

Cons

Continuous micromanagement and thrash. You will be worked to the bone and you will be uncomfortable the whole time in the inappropriately cramped office space. In earlier years the pain was worth it bc of Bilt’s phenomenal growth. The atmosphere even added a level of endearment to the company. More recently it feels like the engine is spinning its wheels. The company has a toxic culture around performance. Like many other people I talked to, I thought that every day I worked at Bilt could be the last day. Everyone walked on eggshells around the executives bc if you got on their bad side you would disappear. In the early days this was in a sense a plus - paper pushers were sniffed out and removed quickly and everyone earned their fair weight in shares. However there was also no transparency and clear disorganization and inconsistency at the corporate level around managing comp and performance as a whole. It gave you anxiety. Having said all this - comp was fair and they took care of people. If Bilt cant keep growing to make the equation work for its staff their culture will backfire.

1.0
Dec 19, 2024

Unless you really need to, avoid working here

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

• If you are in dire need of a job, then you should work here. There are plenty of people in the same boat • BILT is one of the larger more flashy start-ups out there right now, so the name recognition is a plus • Fair compensation. They're not paying people the right amount for the number of weekends we have to pull (hint: it's half the time), but they could be far worse

Cons

• Company leaders are selected based on personal wealth and connections with the CEO, Ankur Jain. It is crystal clear that they have only gotten where they are by pure BS. By the way, do a brief internet search of Ankur's father, Naveen Jain, who was famous for misleading investors in his own startup and had to pay over 100 million in violations. • I implore you to watch any video interview of Ankur and marvel at his unique talent of never answering a single question reporters have for him. • At this point, you may have read other reviews complaining about the minuscule size of the office. Those reviews are inaccurate; the office is even smaller than you can possibly imagine. During my interview, management reiterated that the company would acquire more seating arrangements within a few months. It has been a year, and they have failed to alleviate this issue. Ankur demands that every employee need come in to the office everyday, and yet ignores that multiple individuals work from the decrepit, tiny staircase every day because they cannot find seating. • Everyone, including myself, is incredibly young in a negative way. There are senior directors who are barely 27, and it shows. They know nothing. But hey! They throw some pretty rad parties! • If anything sticks with you, know that I came from some of the most toxic Wall Street environments, and BILT takes the cake as even worse in culture than any of those banks.

1.0
Jun 12, 2024

Solid idea and people, lack of coherent direction and leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Company is based around a solid idea that isn’t being addressed anywhere else in the market (rewarding rent payments). - Really smart and driven people. - Solid comp and benefits.

Cons

- Leadership is scatterbrained and non-existent in some regards. Priorities are constantly shifting and that often isn’t discussed or communicated to key stakeholders until a decision has already been made by the executive team. - In office is essentially required 5 days/week. While this isn’t inherently a problem, a lack of dedicated work space, meeting rooms, and a cramped environment makes it difficult to focus and get work done. - Feedback loops don’t really exist unless you explicitly seek them out, making it difficult to know where your performance stands relative to expectations. - Much of the culture is driven by the whims of a CEO that can best be described as a megalomaniac and micromanager. - This is not a standard 9 to 5 gig and requires constant monitoring of slack and email during evenings and weekends to ensure you stay up to speed.

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