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      Revolut

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      Revolut reviews

      4.0

      76% would recommend to a friend

      (5,315 total reviews)
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      Nikolay Storonsky

      91% approve of CEO

      77% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Compensation and benefits

      4.1

      Career opportunities

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.8

      Senior management

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      Revolut has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 5,315 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Revolut employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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      5K reviews
      2.0
      Jul 27, 2020

      Fear-driven culture, risk of mental health issues, under-appreciation

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      If you turn a blind eye to all the cons and agree to sacrifice your life/work balance and work long hours in a very harsh atmosphere, then you can be promoted quite fast. Good work-from-home policy.

      Cons

      The culture is very toxic and fear-driven. An employee might be fired without any meaningful explanations the next day after discussing plans for the next few months with his/her manager. Due to high stress at work, from time to time I have sleep disturbances. The most severe one lasted a whole week and eventually resulted in me calling an ambulance. Everyone's obsessed with KPIs, not the real quality of deliverables. Projects are often badly scoped. As an engineer, you're just a "resource" that might be deployed to any project at any time without even asking you. Working long hours is encouraged by the company's culture, although not compulsory. If you're perfect at everything (speed, quality, etc), you'll reach only the "Intermediate" level at a performance review. To get a higher score, you'll need to seriously sacrifice your life/work balance.

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      Revolut Response
      5y
      Reply: Hi there, thank-you for leaving a review. We take all reviews very seriously. We’re sorry to hear of your recent experience. It is very concerning to us as we take out people’s well-being very seriously. We’d be grateful if you’d please contact the HR team or, if you’re not sure who to talk to, just email HR@revolut.com so that we can help. Your work should never affect your health, and we have support available for you. We’d like to address a few of the other points you raise. To reassure you, our performance reviews follow a strict process, and no one is ever let go without a formal review and discussion of performance. We are ambitious as a business but we don’t want that to provoke stress in our people, and we’re working hard to improve how we motivate and support our colleagues. Just to reiterate, there is support for you here at Revolut and your work should never affect your health. Please reach out to HR or your manager so we can improve your experience as soon as possible.
      2.0
      May 31, 2020

      Toxic culture, top down

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Cool product and brand, smart people

      Cons

      Unsupportive, fear-driven culture that stifles collaboration and openness, little to no feedback, not even a vague understanding of how to nurture talent and get the best from employees. Completely chaotic.

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      Revolut Response
      5y
      Thank you for your honest feedback, we appreciate you taking the time and really are sorry that you’re not feeling supported in your role. We believe that we have a culture of collaboration and open feedback and if you aren’t getting feedback that you need, we would ask that you escalate this to HR so that we can put a plan in place for you. We did announce recently the strengthening of functional management and new ways to provide more structured feedback, so we hope this will help. We accept that it can be more difficult since remote working to collaborate and get the feedback we need, so we’ll pass your comments on so we can think about ways to encourage more effective communication. We are glad you’re enjoying some important aspects of your work, like the people and the product, and we hope that you feel able to reach out to support from management or HR and that we improve your Revolut experience.
      1.0
      May 6, 2020

      Worst management ever

      Product owner
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      + smart colleagues + great for learning and development

      Cons

      Senior management treats employees as mere numbers. CEO openly said managers should gladly let under-performers go during townhall and pointed out employees are being lazy when everyone in the company literally works all the time even during weekend. Good managers are those who can fire employees without a blink. Company recently introduced quarterly performance reviews so they have more opportunities to fire people. Management rules by intimidation. If employees don’t follow certain process or meet certain deadlines, their bonus will get deducted. Senior managements often openly harass employees, calling people idiots and micro manage every little aspects. Some employees are also being let go simply because they disobey orders from above. The remaining employees become too afraid to speak out and just work hard to satisfy requirements from senior management. You don’t get praise when doing a good job but imagine the worst when you screw up. Politics in the company drive teams to work against each other. Every team is too busy optimising their KPI without thinking long term. No resources nor support are provided for personal development. There are materials on HR portal for it but they are not useful at all. Climbing up career ladder in Revolut is a suicide mission. Avoid at all cost.

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      Revolut Response
      6y
      Thank you for your honest feedback, we appreciate you taking the time to let us know where you think we can improve. We take any claims of harassment extremely seriously and strongly urge you to speak to management and use the whistleblowing channels available so that these claims can be thoroughly and promptly investigated. Our senior management, from the CEO down, recognise the commitment of our employees and do so regularly at Town Halls and elsewhere. Even more so since the Covid19 outbreak. Quarterly performance reviews are common across many industries and give both management and employees a chance to honestly assess whether their work is on track, and provide an opportunity to offer support or coaching if needed, to help people achieve their goals. Where people have left after a performance review, this follows formal review and discussion of their performance, where the company believes that the employee has not achieved the expected performance. We train managers in performance management to ensure that assessment is fair and that employees understand their goals. Bonuses being linked to performance is a very common practice and we believe is a great incentive for our employees to meet their goals and KPIs. We are glad that you feel that you’re surrounded by fellow smart Revoluters, and that you are enjoying the learning and development opportunities at Revolut, and would ask you once again to speak to your manager about your pain points.
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