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Work hard and make an impact - Anonymous employee RaiseMe Employee Review

4.0
Aug 31, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

RaiseMe is full of fun, personable, and passionate people that make coming to work every day a joy. I love our mission of increasing financial transparency in the college process for students. There's always tons of work to do, but with that challenge comes room to grow professionally and take on stretch projects. The organization is becoming more diverse aims to continue growing with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. I truly enjoy working here, and would recommend it in a heartbeat.

Cons

- As RaiseMe grows, transparently revenue-generating projects diverge from the crux of mission the company's mission - expanding access to education, especially among low-income and first-generation students. This is disheartening for your especially mission-aligned employees. - A lack of diversity within senior leadership / upper management.

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5.0
Jan 19, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Loved my time at RaiseMe

Cons

Regular start up growing pains

3.0
Feb 5, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

- Smart, driven co-workers who bring 110% to the table and push you to be your best - Compelling mission in a sector that offers life-changing outcomes for user - Initial product well-designed and engaging

Cons

- Everything the previous reviewer wrote about management issues holding back stability, and the detrimental effect of having no professional HR support, I witnessed and experienced as well; leadership is dysfunctional and highly political - This results in an incredible amount of turnover, throughout all departments within the organization, at remarkable frequency even considering this is a start-up - Lack of user-listening: RaiseMe purports to support low-income and first-generation students who want to go to college, but those cohorts are an after thought in product development and business focus - Much lip service paid to company values and diversity initiatives that always seem to be "in development" and "coming," but never result in goals and action items that hold the company accountable - None of these points will be news to anyone in management reading these reviews, employees have repeatedly shared this feedback only to have their concerns challenged or minimized, with a loose promise that change is coming

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