Enova reviews

Many, many of the problems here hinge on how well you get along with your boss - Promotions are kind of arbitrary - dependent on whether your boss likes you - I know folks who've been here years in the same role (doing valuable work), others who were promoted once a year two years running - One person was fired - thrown out on the same day with no notice or warning given - putting his visa status in serious jeopardy - again this was because he pissed off the wrong manager - this was after he pulled 48hour days keeping the company from going down the tubes - Pay is pretty abysmal for analysts - associates are better off but would still get paid more elsewhere - The quality of projects is largely uninteresting - mostly projects are maintenance - or hack and slash numbers, ad hoc pull requests. Good work happens, but it's rare and you have to fight for it - There's a lot of pressure to perform, long hours, which is okay - but the pay isn't balanced for the quality of work demanded - Unreasonable pressure to produce ROI - which is hard given that you don't control the projects you are assigned to - The gender ratio is beyond terrible - Bad karma: when you get right down to it - Enova is a corporate loan-shark. You think that you're removed from the day-to-day murkiness of it all, but the fact that you work for an evil corporate entity tends to percolate through everywhere. At the end of the day, when you work here - you make the world a worse place.

Turnover rate says a lot. Last year it was analytics, this year it's the software engineering team. Not to be dethroned as the department with the highest turnover rate, the VP of analytics has decided to help the turnover process along by firing a senior employee of 2 years for "insubordination". Funny how this employee wasn't insubordinate during his first two years when he built a BI tool for a product that every department would come to depend on. Also funny how this employee wasn't insubordinate about a month ago during the massive regulatory audits that had more than a few people in management freaked out. But the tool has been built and the regulators have backed off, so those who have outlived their usefulness must go, right? To add insult to injury, management gave a sob story about how hard they "tried" to transfer this employee to another department that was a better fit and how the other departments just didn't have room. Except aren't people leaving from EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT? Management didn't fact-check this excuse with reality. Moral of the story: get hired, get experience, get out. No point sticking around unless you want HR or managers deciding you are insubordinate and fire you.