Green Dot Reviews

Pros

Strong leadership, benefits, challenging work

Cons

Too much email and too many meetings.

Pros

Good environment for fresher ,

Cons

Don't know about it very much

Pros

Great team work people benefit

Cons

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Pros

Good working environment and emoluments and benefits

Cons

Less salary and less technical work

Pros

Good for learning experience, core feild, planning

Cons

Multiple leaders, bad anagement communication

Pros

Green Dot has a solid product portfolio, several products have huge potential to scale and make huge profits. Engineering teams are solid. A great stepping stone to get experience working on state of the art fintech projects, then move on to another fintech that pays engineers better.

Cons

Engineering and technology teams gets very little budget or respect even though they basically run the company and it’s operations. Engineering teams are consistently understaffed and underpaid while there is an overwhelming abundance of executives, managers and businesspeople who contribute absolutely nothing to the company. Engineers are forced to track what they do each hour of the day, so some “do nothing” program managers can run a report that serves no value besides justifying their own existence at the company. Too many “do nothing” business leeches who contribute no value to this company, not enough “doers.”

Pros

The company has some great people who work there and are really competent (particularly at the staff level). The remote culture is very embedded into the DNA of the company and it's great for people who don't want to commute. The company has invested into technology that makes remote work pleasant and seamless. Unlimited vacation is offered to everyone, but when you're allowed to use it depends on your manager. My manager never denied any vacation request I made, so it was great.

Cons

The company received a new CEO just over 2 years ago and nearly the entire executive management team is new. They have made positive pushes in terms of company culture and flexibility, but the overall implementation of company-wide projects has been a bit of a mess. Many major initiatives have been improperly managed with completely avoidable mistakes. Additionally, from an executive standpoint, there's an attitude that if you were part of "old Green Dot" you're not part of the future of Green Dot, so a lot of your work gets ignored. The company's growth has slowed, and budget increases were small. In 2022, my team's budget was increased by 3% and in 2021, it was 0%. Notably less promotions have occurred in the past 2 years. From a career standpoint, it's hard to see yourself growing with the company.

Pros

Employees at our below Director level seem to care.

Cons

Employees above Director level do not care about the employees, just about being profitable. Both can occur simultaneously.

Pros

Lots of opportunities with the Digital Transformation initiatives to learn / grow. They are not only a fintech but a bank too so that puts them at an advantage Lots of brand name customers like Apple, Inuit etc.

Cons

Very poor project planning / execution at CTO level Knee jerks reactions than well thought out methodical approach. Unrealistic timelines. Lot of infighting acorss teams and widespread organizational issues.

Pros

Pay was great for a work from home company

Cons

Company did layoffs while I was there.