Career-defining role, best place I've ever worked - Staff Software Engineer SoFi Employee Review

5.0
Sep 4, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Work with intelligent, highly-skilled people and have every tool at your disposal that you need to succeed. * Lots of potential for upward mobility. Good incentives for moving up. * A well-defined company culture within an organization that really feels like it has your back and is building itself up in a way that can people appreciate. * Excellent leadership at the top, especially the CEO. * Meaningful work. I worked on a high-performing team with some of the brightest people I've ever known. It was challenging, but looking back I can't imagine going through life without experiencing this. My team set aggressive goals and usually reached them. This sometimes meant really stretching to get there, which is why I say it was challenging. The co-workers I had, the growth I experienced, and the compensation made it 100% worth it. It was also really rewarding to see the company set aggressive goals and very often meet or exceed them. Winning feels good. I worked here longer than any other company on my résumé and am so proud of the things I accomplished during that time.

Cons

* On-call shifts sometimes made it hard to get normal/adequate sleep. * My post-SoFi life left me wondering if maybe I left a little too soon. Adjusting to my next opportunity wasn't easy.

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SoFi Response
9mo
Hello there, we appreciate you taking the time to leave such detailed feedback. It's fantastic to hear that you had such a positive experience with your team and our company culture. It sounds like you were part of something truly special! We also appreciate your candor about your schedule as we're always collecting feedback to improve. We encourage you to reach out to glassdoor@sofi.org if you'd like to discuss anything further. Thank you!

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2.0
Jun 6, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You are only required to work from the office 1 day of the week and the rest from home. The Benefit package is great. The company has free snacks, fruits and drinks at the office and it provides the employees with lunch at least once a month while at the office.

Cons

You are literately a modern day slave with low pay and a tone of work. After a few months you have to get upskilled (more work) without any additional compensation. You are constantly evaluated: First call resolution is huge, the goal is for the member not to have to call back in at least a week. The company wants the call to last less than 5 minutes (or you get dinged). The company wants the members to respond to the surveys and if they don't it counts against you. if you go on chats, you will have to serve maneuver between two different once at the same time. You ONLY get a 30 minute lunch break and two 15 minute breaks. It is difficult to go to the restroom because while on the phones there is NO actual bathroom disposition and so you will get dinged and if it takes you longer than 5 minutes you get a message from intrudium informing you that you are out of adherence. The technology is the worse I have ever had to work with. It uses a program called Zscaler that is constantly disconnecting and when it does, it interrupts all of the other programs that are required to work with, in which case you have to inform WFM that you are having tech issues either by telephone or by sending a Workflow and hope it gets approved. While in training you are informed that you will only get paid up to 1 hr while having a tech issue. Workflows are huge and used for everything, including if you are suppose to clock out for the day but you are still on a call and it makes you go over 5 minutes (or you get dinged). Putting in for PTO or Sick Time is also not easy either, it's all about the companies needs so, hopefully you will get approved or maybe not. H.R. is only there a bit while you are hired and of course if you are let go but other than that, not sure what they do because there is no real connection.

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SoFi Response
3d
Hi there, thank you for leaving a review. We're sorry your experience didn't match your expectations and encourage you to reach out to glassdoor@sofi.org to discuss your review in more detail.
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