5 Perks of Working at Mission-Driven Financial Services Company OnDeck

This article is sponsored by OnDeck®*, which is hiring summer interns on WayUp now.

In a perfect world, a company offers day-to-day perks like great food and social hours, loads of professional development training, ongoing mentorship, a productive work environment, and the chance to make a real impact.

This magical company does in fact exist, and its name is OnDeck®. The financial services platform helps thousands of small business owners secure loan financing, changing people’s lives and empowering the economy along the way. To do that, the organization realizes that keeping its team members happy and healthy is integral.

Feel like we’ve hyped up OnDeck enough? It’s time to check out the five biggest perks of working for the company, and then you can head on over to WayUp to apply to OnDeck’s summer internship now!

1. A Productive Work Environment

OnDeck understands that people work best in different environments, so it allows team members to work in an open floor plan and encourages them to create the best work environment for their personal preferences. Employees can choose from standing or sitting desks, private work stations or group spaces however you like to work best, you can.

OnDeck doesn’t just offer an environment that fuels your work habits, but it also makes sure you’re fueling your palette too! OnDeck has the best food perks with a fully stocked kitchen at all hours (yes, it even has healthy options!)  As a team member, you also get a credit for an online food delivery service (!!!), so there are several days where you’ll never have to pack a lunch or pay money for food.

2. Social Events and Entertainment

In addition to in-office foosball and ping-pong tables (weekly tournaments, anyone?), OnDeck offers a weekly budget for online food delivery, monthly social hours and annual summer and winter parties to give team members plenty of time to socialize. There are also a number of OnDeck sponsored sports & community groups for team members to join so that you can continue the friendship with your team members outside of the office too!

And speaking of your life outside of the office, OnDeck offers weekly yoga classes, gym memberships, tickets to local entertainment and sporting events, and car rentals for all team members at corporate rates. Yes, that’s right: Gear up for a company that supports work-life balance!

3. Real Impact

If you’re wondering whether or not your role affects real lives, we’ll keep it short: At OnDeck, it does.

OnDeck lets the numbers speak for themselves: The company, which had economic consulting firm Analysis Group conduct a study in 2015, has left an $11 billion (Go OnDeck!) impact on the economy and helped create 74,000 jobs nationwide through its work financing loans to small business across the country and through its other products and initiatives with clients. Since we help people finds jobs, we couldn’t more be happy for OnDeck helping to create these opportunities!

4. Career Development

OnDeck has an in-house career coach who provides one-on-one career coaching and support to any team member and manager. All team members and managers have access to a suite of customized tools and resources to support them in their career conversations and development. The company also offers a number of classes for team members who want to up their professional game, like Leadership Essentials, Unconscious Bias Training, and Presentation Skills.

Additionally, their career coach hosts monthly office hours for all team members and people managers. Team members come to share what’s on their mind about their career and discuss together how they can put a plan in place to achieve their goals. People managers come to discuss how they can continue to create meaningful experiences that help their team members grow, develop and continue to drive the business forward.

5. A Supportive Environment

Support at OnDeck starts on day one: Newbies get a “rookie” t-shirt on their chair as a way of letting the rest of the team know to say hi and lend a helping hand.

Then there’s a two-day onsite orientation with the senior leadership team, an online team member playbook that outlines OnDeck’s values, a guide to expectations for the first 30, 60, and 90 days, and site-specific guides at all of OnDeck’s office. And if that already sounds like a warm welcome, OnDeck steps it up a notch by giving every single new hire an “onboarding coach” to make sure each person feels settled in and on track for success.

But support doesn’t end once someone has been on the team for a few weeks or months. The company has a number of initiatives to keep morale up and achievements recognized. One of these is its online rewards platform, where people can get a shout out from team members for a job well done. When you rack up “points”, you could win anything from a gift card to a one-on-one lunch with OnDeck’s CEO.

We don’t really know why you wouldn’t want to work for OnDeck, so we’ll make this easy: You can apply for their summer internship program on WayUp right now!

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