January Reviews

4.5

89% would recommend to a friend

(48 total reviews)

Jake Cahan

93% approve of CEO

87% positive business outlook

January has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 48 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The January 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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48 reviews
1.0
20 Mar 2024

Company doesn’t value black or brown employees

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Company is doing well despite the economy.

Cons

People of color are treated less then especially marginalized groups.

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January Response
2y
Thank you for sharing your perspective. We take feedback like this seriously, as it provides us with an opportunity to reflect and reaffirm our dedication to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. Our business is centered on supporting financially disadvantaged borrowers. We recognize the importance of having a team that reflects the diverse makeup of those that we strive to support each and every day. We rely on our team’s varied perspectives to drive innovation within our business, and to enhance the January team culture. With the team's essential feedback, we've invested and continue to invest in creating a community of high trust, where every voice matters. Based on feedback, we’ve focused our efforts on designing development programs and providing L&D budgets to all employees, normalizing frequent, thoughtful feedback between reports and managers and their peers, rolling out a multi-class DEI training program, launching an Employee Resource Group program, and promoting internal mobility. We’re proud to share that over 50% of our team members identify with one or more groups that are least represented within the tech industry. We encourage you, and everyone on the January team, to reach out to your manager, a member of the people team, or a member of our leadership team with feedback and requests for support whenever needed. We also encourage our team to use our anonymous feedback channels at any time. We hope that you choose to reach out to the People team or a member of Leadership so that we can work together to continue making January an inclusive environment for all team members.
5.0
15 Nov 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Massive emphasis on learning and documentation. No question is too mundane to ask, no process exempt from questioning and/or improvement. - Great sense of community in the NYC office, and major focus on hiring employees that align on our cultural values of communication and collaboration. - Managers recognize asymmetric risks and learning opportunities. Junior and mid-level engineers are encouraged to incorporate self-education into their project deliverables. - Pay and stock options are near the top of market, unlimited PTO, thoughtful and considerate management/senior leadership. - Great liquidity and cash flow, company is not going under any time soon. Transparent financials, and All-Hands meetings are actually useful! - Virtually no gossip, politics, clique-ness and overall markers of poor culture/community.

Cons

- As with many Series A startups, underdeveloped systems architecture and IT Operations. - There is a lack of under-represented minorities in the engineering team, some systemic changes are required but as someone who is not a member of these ethnic groups, I'm not sure what it is.

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