Remitly Reviews

Rating Score4.3 29 reviews
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  • 3 14%
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  • 4.2 Career Growth
  • 4.4 Work - Life Balance
  • 3.7 Compensation / Benefits
  • 4.5 Company Culture
  • 4.0 Management
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“If you are a minority, think twice”

Verified User Current Employee · r***** · Business Analyst - Feb 23, 2022

ProsThis is a company with a great mission of helping immigrants and their families. There is respect for different cultural traditions and a focus on trying to understand and do right by customers.

Thanks to sourcing from ADA, remitly is also home to many people who are trans, non binary, etc., to the degree that diversity of gender expression is very normalized.

ConsThe majority of senior leadership and board members are white, male, and very out of touch with the immigrant experience. This is reflected in how the company is run and how minority employees are treated. Minority attrition is high—almost all the black and Latina women I knew at Remitly have left. 4 white/asian women have personally cried to me about the microaggressions and gaslighting they experience in the workplace. Minority men tend to grow into leadership positions only if they ‘act the part’ by cozying up to white boys club type exec leadership. Those who don’t have expressed to me that they feel undervalued/denied promotions despite consistently delivering high quality work. Additionally, women at Remitly generally have little to no shot at leadership positions, almost all female execs are external hires, though this may be changing as 1-2 women were promoted to sr leadership in the past 6 months (still hard to tell if this is tokenization or not). Sum: Remitly is not a place where minorities can authentically get the sponsors they need to grow. If you aren’t male, or even if you are male and don’t want to rise by bringing others down, think twice before joining.

Rating Score4.0
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“Great flexibility ”

Verified User Current Employee · S********* · Creative Designer - Apr 1, 2022

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“amazing CEO”

Verified User Current Employee · w********* · Program Manager - Mar 27, 2022

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Rating Score5.0
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“Great mission, fantastic culture, future upside ”

Verified User Former Employee · D***** · Engineer - Mar 20, 2022

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“Too much to do and too little resources ”

Verified User Current Employee · l******* · Engineer - Feb 23, 2022

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“Great work life balance”

Verified User Current Employee · s***** · Engineer III - Feb 17, 2022

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“Growing really fast ”

Verified User Current Employee · m***** · Data Science Engineer - Jan 29, 2022

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“Interesting work, great exec leaders and tons of potential ”

Verified User Current Employee · X***** · Engineer - Jan 11, 2022

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“Excellent work life balance, strong mission”

Verified User Current Employee · U***** · Marketing Associate - Jan 9, 2022

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“The Finest Place!”

Verified User Current Employee · O***** · Software Engineer - Dec 25, 2021

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“Overall”

Verified User Current Employee · z***** · DevOps Engineer - Oct 29, 2021

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“Exciting product and growth, great culture”

Verified User Current Employee · f******* · Software Development Engineer - Oct 5, 2021

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“Excellent place”

Verified User Current Employee · R***** · Software Engineer - Sep 9, 2021

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“Great work life balance”

Verified User Current Employee · L***** · Software Developer I - Aug 30, 2021

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“approximately as good as it gets”

Verified User Current Employee · G***** · Engineering Manager - Aug 23, 2021

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“Caring people, good WLB, lots of opportunity for growth”

Verified User Current Employee · B***** · Software Development Engineer I - Jul 31, 2021

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“Pretty great”

Verified User Current Employee · O***** · Senior Product Manager - Jun 25, 2021

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“Growth!!”

Verified User Current Employee · z***** · Data Analyst - Jun 14, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
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“Company with great mission ”

Verified User Current Employee · N***** · Software Developer - Apr 30, 2021

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“Great product with nice management that has focus ”

Verified User Current Employee · g***** · Software Engineer II - Apr 13, 2021

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“Tough work pays off”

Verified User Current Employee · H***** · Engineering Manager - Apr 7, 2021

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“Great for engineers”

Verified User Current Employee · d***** · Engineering Manager II - Mar 21, 2021

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“Great place to learn”

Verified User Current Employee · b******* · Product Owner - Feb 15, 2021

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“Good company, plenty of potential for improvement”

Verified User Current Employee · y******** · Senior Data Analyst - Jan 25, 2021

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“Good environment to learn, lots of smart people around but poor WLB”

Verified User Current Employee · r********* · Business Analytics Manager - Jan 14, 2021

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“Great career growth in product and engineering, strong focus on helping customers, business expanding rapidly”

Verified User Current Employee · x***** · Engineer - Nov 12, 2020

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“Good company, leadership could be better”

Verified User Current Employee · r***** · Engineer - Oct 11, 2020

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“Challenging and rewarding”

Verified User Current Employee · 1****** · Engineer - Aug 28, 2020

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“Working to be a better place for women and minority ”

Verified User Current Employee · e***** · Engineer - Aug 14, 2020

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