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      Enova

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      Enova reviews

      3.6

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (818 total reviews)
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      Steve Cunningham

      53% approve of CEO

      63% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      3.3

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      Enova has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 818 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Enova employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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      818 reviews
      2.0
      Jul 10, 2018

      Enova lacks the will to fix its culture

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      * Great work/life balance for many positions. Lots of company events, summer Fridays, random little perks. Many of these, such as flexible hours and unlimited vacation time have been rolled back recently. * Tech culture values teaching and continuous learning. Unfortunately, little of this is relevant at Enova.

      Cons

      * The worst and most striking thing about working at Enova is the permanent culture of distrust between the engineering and product teams. Animosity is normal and angry outbursts are common. * No research, just development. The product team designs financial products, not software. * Leadership doesn’t seem to understand that UX is distinct from engineering and design. At best it’s “kept in mind” by print designers and front-end engineers. * Enormous technical debt makes software projects chaotic and stressful. The few engineers allocated to tech initiatives work on shiny things that don’t address real problems. Major production issues are frequent and costly with no end in sight. * Enova prefers passive-aggressive “managing out” over termination. Employees are shut out of decision making, assigned meaningless or unrealistic goals, and demoralized into resigning.

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      Enova Response
      7y
      Thanks for your feedback. As CTO, I'm proud of our culture of learning and discovery in Tech and how we are applying that knowledge to the work we do for the business. Enova has seen tremendous growth in products, revenue, and people over the last few years -- and things that made us successful as a smaller company need to change to serve a more complex, multi-national business. In the last couple of years, we've added Go to our language stack, begun deploying AWS lambdas for some of our services and focused on the architecture and the technologies to build more intuitive user experiences across web, mobile, and beyond as consumers move to new devices. Our business is built on -- and our competitive edge -- is our technology and analytics. That's something we're absolutely going to keep investing and building on. -John
      2.0
      Nov 6, 2017

      Not Diverse

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      It has the standard for startup type environment

      Cons

      The company is extremely polarized with no diversity throughout the teams. Software engineering is dominated by many white males with few females.

      3.0
      Mar 1, 2016

      Good place to learn, but would not consider a top tier opportunity or workplace.

      Software engineer
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      Pros

      The workplace culture is generally very laid back and easy going at least on the engineering side. People focus primarily on getting things done so work hours tend to be very flexible provided it doesn't hamper your productivity. Enova was also a great place to learn coming out of school and especially so if you happened to want to work with a Rails stack. People are generally pretty friendly and willing to help answer your questions and walk you through things if needed.

      Cons

      The company does not feel "top tier" nor does it compensate as such and the things you work on are not necessarily interesting (i.e., loans????). It tries to give off the impression that it's top tier but ultimately falls short. Few things ever really excited me, whether it was the work or the product or the people, and the company just felt like a pit stop along the way to a better career elsewhere. By no means was any part of the company BAD, but it did seem to have a deficit of GOOD and surplus of MEH. The biggest single issue is that Enova simply didn't feel like the place you could make a career at, or at least not if you were targeting the top tier of tech companies. The company also had a major change in personnel between when I signed my offer and when I started and it didn't take long before the company started to feel more and more corporate. Growing companies will inevitably feel less like a startup and have more structure and organization, but nevertheless it was something that I did not want to be a part of. However, the stock price of the company as I write this (March 2016) is far, far below its IPO price so at this point I'm not even sure if the company will grow much at all anymore.

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