Not a place to make a career - Anonymous employee Enova Employee Review

2.0
Jul 16, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Summer Hours for most employees (stop working at 2pm on Fridays) - sabbaticals - overwhelmingly, people are "human" - easy to talk to and build rapport with - stock price seems to do fairly well - and stocks are provided as part of compensation

Cons

- Despite it being one of their stated values, the company does not make sound decisions based on data. They seem to make decisions based on the CEO's personal preferences (and no one seems to know what those are based on). Case in point - a survey of employees overwhelmingly indicated a preference for continuing to work remotely. Instead of listening to employees, it seems we are being forced to work in the office Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. *No one* I have talked to about this is happy with this plan. Leadership says they pay attention to data (and maybe they even think they do), but they don't. - CEO micromanages. He involves himself into much lower-level decisions than a CEO should...who is minding the bigger picture??? - Excessive hierarchy and layers of management. It's easy to get pigeon-holed into a narrow role and just stay there, because there are 3 layers of management already above you and they aren't going anywhere. If you want a job where you can just coast, maybe this is a pro instead of a con. - Enova doesn't fire people. This means you have a certain sub-set of co-workers that are just coasting, and another sub-set that is doing extra work to make up for it. Again, if you want a job where you can just coast, this is a pro instead of a con. - Enova wants you to quit. Leadership is repeatedly asked what they are doing to combat attrition. The answer is that they are hiring - i.e. they aren't doing anything to keep you from quitting. TBH with their policies (e.g. in-office work policy mentioned above), it seems they are actively trying to get us to quit. I think it would be giving them too much credit to assume that they have run the numbers and data shows it is more economical to hire and train up fresh talent than to try to be a company that is capable of retaining top talent. I think they are just short-sighted and lazy and want top (i.e. more expensive) talent to quit. - "Person in Charge" aka PIC mentality. It's a pro in some ways - it provides clear accountability. However, it also leads to teams/ppl only taking care of their own. You hear "not my responsibility" a lot. In some cases, this is appropriate. In others, it means *no one* is willing to take ownership. There is also some degree of spending time trying to shop for new owners for things that are not appropriate for you to own anymore, or that you don't want to own anymore. - If you are coming to Enova via a company acquisition, you will be assimilated. A word of advice for anyone at a company being acquired by Enova: start thinking about your next job hunt NOW.

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You could take 2 phone calls and use the same exact words and conversations and the AI system will grade one perfect and the other it will say you did “poor” and give you 0’s on metrics they grade on. That affects your bound if you’re lucky enough to even get one. They also require you to do a call closing, if a customer hangs up before you can even say it, you get graded a 0 no matter what. And yes that also affects your bonus. This job isn’t based on just you. They want you to worry about your co workers stats. So if your co workers don’t do good enough that also affects YOUR bonus. When it comes to time off, they’ll give you PTO, UTO (unpaid time off). Then they give you “My time” and “My time unplanned” - for the year. Now if you use your benefit time to 0 - which in my case I did due to severe illness, NEVER used it for the purpose of just because I wanted to. If you hit 0 they start giving you attendance points. Yeah you heard me. You, a grown adult, taking time off for anything no matter how serious, attendance points. Even if you tell them months in advance. I NEVER gave them 2 weeks or less of a notice and they will still give you points for it. If you hit 5 it’s a written, if you hit 6 it’s a final / termination. Also using the UTO will give you points so what’s the point of that?? I should also add - they will give you written warnings for any metrics not being good enough. I was given one for one metric being 2% below. 2%. Which also affects your bonuses. This company will do ANYTHING not to pay you While there was some pleasant customers, majority of the people calling in were absolutely disgusting. Working this job the people you think you’re there to help will treat you like scum of the earth. They say the worst things I’ve ever heard. After a call like this they don’t give you a few minutes to compose yourself, they give you 30 seconds before the next call. When this happens, the company turns their heads they won’t defend you in anyway. While the higher ups sit in their cushy chairs doing fake work all day and making twice the amount you do, you get the short end of the stick for crappy pay. When I hit my 1 year anniversary they did not make it about me. No raise, no personal congratulations, no swag, NOTHING. Not even a gift card. Instead they sent me a message that said “As a tenured Enova team member, your opinion on Enova means a lot. In conjunction with your Enoversary, would you consider writing a public review to give candidates better insight into what it's like to work at Enova?” Yep. They really said congrats on 1 year now write us a review about how great we are This company will not listen to anything you have to say. They do not care about you. They do not want to see you grow. This place WILL ruin your mental health. You WILL dread the thought of working every day and you will hate your life. I left as soon as I could. If I were you I’d AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COST. YOU CAN DO SO MUCH BETTER!!!!! If I could say one thing to the higher up people who make the rules - IF YOU DONT WORK THE PHONES, STOP PUTTING CERTAIN THINGS IN PLACE YOU THINK IS HELPFUL. YOU HAVE PROBABLY NEVER TAKEN A CALL IN YOUR LIFE SO PLEASE FOR ALL YOUR FUTURE EMPLOYEES STOP MAKING THE JOB SO HARD!! CUSTOMER SERVICE IS EASY, ITS THE STUPID METRICS AND RULES YOU PUT IN PLACE THAT MAKE IT ALL IMPOSSIBLE. You make it so your employees are screwed if they do, screwed if they don’t.

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