Bluevine Reviews

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.

-Poor leadership. They keep bringing in C-suite leaders with either minimal leadership or lack of EQ. Founders are using these "leaders" to enforce bad ideologies with no transparency. We had a man of color join the sales leadership and he's gone and the business did not tell us anything about it??? They are strong-arming us to go back into the office even with positive covid cases week after week. They removed anonymous questions during All hands so people cannot share their opinions safely. Csuite has no diversity as the majority are Israeli and don't wanna embrace American work culture. -Career growth is nonexsistent. They only want to hire externally. When people have been here for years and sacrificed our mental health by working over 50 hours/week. Only to be told by HR that we can't be promoted because we don't meet the years of experience. A bunch of people left due to that fact getting offers with 20% or more pay increases and way better benefits. -No startup mentality. Series F but there are no processes because people keep leaving and nothing is completed. Things move slow. Too much red tape and ideas get shot down left and right if it is not done without the CEO's approval. -We recently did a rebrand. That's pretty much a bandaid to cover up all the internal issues and make the employees forget had bad it has got. They keep shoving in our faces that they're profitable but won't share details, raise another round, or pay people better.