Oportun Recruiter pinged me with a generic intro and link to a PM role: Sr PM, Loan Servicing CX. Donโt know much about Oportun (company, culture, talent, and comp). Made it to a few fintech headlines last year after buying Digit. Thoughts? Have a few irons on the fire, nothing imminent; trying to get some intel here. Thanks ๐ YOE: 6 TC: 240K #product #productmanager #oportun
Oportun's culture is seeing some growing pains. Product org has no clout with an org shift of the prior CTO becoming the current CPO and a VP of Engineering becoming the current acting CTO. The CTO and CPO pair has spent the last year trying to prove themselves from the change so there were increasing micro management practices coming from them that finally trickled to the ICs. This made a lot of people leave with a lot of knowledge lost. The CTO is more worried about delivering on the CEO's comment of we're moving too slow so there are increasing pressure of taking short cuts to deliver a product on-time from an "innovation" team. Meanwhile once launched of the innovation, all other teams have to take on support of a poorly designed system so the innovation team can chase the next big thing. I'd wait about 1-2 years before joining while they figure out their micro management plan. "Do more with less" and "8 engineers in India is greater than 1 engineer in US" are Oportun's motto.
Whoever you are, just know that youโre my hero!!! Got a few friends to ask around and got a similar read. Thank you so much
Has anything changed? Asking for a friend?
Spot on comment here
Oportun has a toxic work culture. A friend of mine joined Oportun from Intuit and quit within few months
Ouchโฆthanks for that! Can you share more on why thatโs the case?