Fair Reviews

3.1

48% would recommend to a friend

(121 total reviews)
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Brad Stewart

49% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

Fair has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 121 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fair employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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121 reviews
3.0
17 Mar 2022
Recommend
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Pros

great work life balance here

Cons

big announcements can be disorienting and out of nowhere

1.0
24 Oct 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits are strong. They offer great health, dental, cellphone, and lunches. Basically, everything a large tech company offers more or less.

Cons

They say they work in an “unstructured” way but, it’s total and utter disorganization and chaos. Recently they have placed a hiring freeze on all roles yet continued to forge with interviewing. Only to rescind offers on candidates who already transferred their H1B visas to Fair from other companies. What’s worse is I as the Hiring manager was not made aware that my new employee’s offer was rescinded. I’m not sure if I’ll have a job tomorrow. Other examples of their disorganization/mismanagement: Only until recently, they had no idea where 90% of their cars were. The leaders in the People team offered drugs at a rented mansion to engineers to complete a new feature in a an unreasonable amount of time. They acquired a competitor (Canvas) in September only to lay off the entire office in October and this is after a constant limbo since June. They overspent and overpaid for cars on anticipated users for their Uber partnership only to not come into fruition causing a total shut down on hiring and affecting other parts of the business. They also misclassified contractors as vendors and did not pay these employees for 2-3 month stretches of time when the funds ran out. Their top People leader is a joke as she has no qualifications to be in a top people role other than having a BA in Psychology and being a fanatic groupie of Laszlo Bock. The business is fundamentally flawed. If Uber couldn’t make xchange profitable, this group of people (or what’s remaining of it) definitely can’t do it. The business raised prices so high their non-Uber customers will never sign up (that’s a strategic choice to avoid shutting down that business line) only to reallocate resources to their Uber partnership rendering them Uber’s highly dependent little brother.

1.0
24 Oct 2019

Major Red Flags

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

healthcare coverage cell phone reimbursement that's it

Cons

You work for a FINANCIAL tech company that doesn't know how to manage money. Let that sink in. The CEO is "transparent" but not honest. He also founded TrueCar and then sold that just in time to save his own behind. The claim culture and people are important but then they don't genuinely care - they just say that. The business model is TERRIBLE! Customers are unhappy, BBB is filled with complaints. Their engineers can't figure out how to make a true flow/process. The C levels have been accused of using illegal substances in a board meeting. They purchased Canvas just to close down the entire office (talk about integrity and being people and culture focused). They also increased cost to customers exponentially in hopes of saving their own butt. So how "fair" can you be when you're that selfish? There's also no such thing as career advancement. It's a plantation. You make the rich people rich while you slave in the field - work/life balance does not exist. It's almost like they throw stock, food, healthcare at you to make up for the all the bad things they are currently doing/have done/will do

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