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Redwood Trust reviews

3.7

61% would recommend to a friend

(80 total reviews)
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Christopher Abate

65% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.7

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Work/Life balance

3.5

Culture & values

3.5

Diversity & inclusion

3.4

Career opportunities

3.3

Senior management

Redwood Trust has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 80 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Redwood Trust 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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Reviews by job title

80 reviews
4.0
Sep 9, 2008

Redwood is a great place to work but change is in the air.

Assistant vice president
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

George Bull and his senior management team has made Redwood Trust a great company to work for because they value their people. The culture is very distinct and to succeed, you'll need to work hard, adapt, and fit in. Employees are valued and developed with regular coaching and training. There are plenty of activities organized by employees to get to know each other.

Cons

Building relationships with key people means success. None means you're stuck or you're out. It's just the way things work. Life's not fair and that's reality.

5.0
Sep 3, 2008

Fairly Stable Future

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Business model works in a bull real estate market. As a REIT, very lofty goal to compete with GSE - Yahoo's Business Summary: Redwood Trust, Inc., a financial institution, together with its subsidiaries, invests in, finances, and manages real estate assets. The company invests in residential and commercial real estate loans, and in asset-backed securities backed by real estate loans. It credit-enhances loans by acquiring and managing the first-loss and credit-sensitive securities that bear the credit risk of securitized loans. For federal income tax purposes, the company is structured as a real estate investment trust (REIT). As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. Redwood Trust, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based in Mill Valley, California.

Cons

REIT model does not enable negative view and bets towards downside

3.0
Sep 2, 2008

work hard, don't get paid

Job titles do not mean anything at redwood, because you still don't get paid
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

used to be a great place to learn used to have a great culture and a fun work environment then it turned into a frat house and politics took over and the mortgage industry went down the drain at this point they are just fighting to stay afloat

Cons

company will probably be downsizing from 90 employees to 20 to stay in business if you can't booze and schmooze, you can't advance a lot of scandals between employees hard for women and minorities to advance does not promote from within high turnover

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