OANDA Reviews

Most of the positive reviews on here are fake. Our HR department puts up fake reviews to bolster our well-deserved 2.4-2.7 rating to a 3.4. This is not a 3-star company. This is certainly not a 3.4-3.5-star company. This is the sort of company you work for when you've exhausted all other options, or your resume is lacking in work experience. Anyone worth their salt who falls into this companies' orbit will start planning for their exit shortly after being hired. You'll have one of two experiences at OANDA, you might be a doer or a sitter. If you're a doer, your role encompasses 3-4 roles, tough luck, you’re going to be underpaid and underappreciated. If you're a sitter, you hit the jackpot, that is if you don't have self-respect, career objectives - or care about how this company makes money or divides work amongst its employees. Spoiler alert, if you’re an engineer or developer you’re probably a sitter as you can get away with working an hour or two a day. Don’t worry, the people who manage you aren’t technical in anyway and have no idea what you do. You’ll be shocked a few weeks in when you learn this is in fact a profitable well-established company (30 years in the business) and not some VC backed startup. You might even start questioning yourself why everything you work on seems like it’s amateur hour. The answer is attrition, people who own the process don’t stick around long enough to maintain it. If you’re semi-established in your career and care about how companies make money and people are treated, hold on, another job offer will come, you can do better. This is a post VC acquired vulture pit where your job can be done by someone younger, cheaper, and likely not in the same country as you. It might seem like a great place to work for those in Poland, where most of our workforce now lives, but remember there is somewhere even cheaper than Poland to hire people. OANDA has no commitments to people or culture, it has commitments to capital and capital will determine where and when the next office is closed and opened.

I was looking to change my job about a year ago and I came across a job opportunity from Oanda. I sent out my resume to them waiting for an interview call. I should mention that my resume did NOT have any reference included. They did not call me after all and I ended up accepting a very good job offer from some other company. One week after I gave my notice to my manager, I had a chat with one of the seniors in my team. I found out that Oanda contacted my manager and told them that I was looking for job. It was a very unprofessional move and also breaking the law with employee's confidentiality. It also caused my manager to pass over me for an internal opportunity.I reached out to HR at Oanda in person cause it is a very serious deal to break someone's confidential information hoping that they take right course of actions to make sure that this never happens to someone else. The HR person seemed surprised at first and said she is gonna follow this up and keep me posed about the situation. But she did not bother to even shoot me an email after two weeks. Later, when I contacted her, she essentially told me that the person who had called my manager had "left" the company. This could be true but I find it very hard to believe given the circumstances.