Bluevine Reviews

From an account management/sales team perspective, their best and brightest have all left in the last couple of months. What remains is a group of mediocre people. My work life further deteriorated since these departures began. If you’re on the revenue team, your thoughts and perspective are not wanted. BlueVine wants you to shut up, put your head down and work. There’s zero opportunity for collaboration. It’s not your responsibility to think big. The risk department is so protected that when something goes wrong, it’s always the revenue team’s fault. Accountability = 0. In fact, it’s said that one of the people got pushed out because they spoke up on poor accountability. After that, everything here went south. I don’t think BlueVine has hit its target once this year. Each month is missed by a larger and larger window. There’s almost no professional development. There have been very lazy attempts to create this but the worst part about these attempts was rather than the management caring enough about the development of their people to do it themselves, they hired a 3rd party to come do very surface level generic “training sessions” instead. It’s so bad here that I’ve been interviewing elsewhere so I can escape the toxic culture of BlueVine. They just do a poor job investing in their people and they often make poor hiring decisions that negatively affect the entire team. Also the pay is lower than market rate and they know this but they have made a few increases to bring it closer to market rate but it’s still below. In addition to being responsible for your work, you are required to be responsible for your peers feelings as well. The CEO is odd. His interactions with people who work for his company are kept to a minimum. He literally has his own office away from the rest of the people in the company. Walls. Upward mobility = none, especially as an AM/AE. Getting promoted is almost impossible. And once you do finally get promoted, where you really promoted? No. You keep doing the same things. Nothing changes.

Compensation and benefits are not competitive. Not even comparable other startups let alone big tech companies. Women are underrepresented in management positions and promotions from the rep level to management nearly always go to men. Women are more likely to get half promotions to "team lead" or "senior rep". Our CTO is cautious to a fault and it holds back our technical progress. Also, him being located in Israel while the Product team is in the US makes everything take longer. During my time at BV, HR has been really inconsistent with its policies without regard to how this affects peoples careers. This year they created a rule that promotions can now only happen once a year in December except for "special exceptions" aka people who threaten to quit. BlueVine policies tend to favor the loudest/pushiest men and they are very weak at identifying talent in people who aren't constantly yelling about how talented they are. There’s a team of 20+ people that has never hired even one women. I don't understand why HR doesn’t speak to them about this. Certain members of senior management are given a long leash even if they have inappropriate anger outbursts during work, they seemingly face no consequences. BlueVine is not good at cutting out low performers. There's a lot of dead weight on some teams but only once in a blue moon will someone actually be fired and even those seem to be more political than performance based.