Hey y'all! I'm Camille, I do people ops at Revolut.
I'm Cassy, I'm an SME credit underwriter .
I'm Sonya and I'm a legal intern at Revolut.
I'm French
I'm British
I'm Ukrainian
When I first learned about Revolut, the company was not that known
But my friend told me about this app, and when I found out what the idea behind it is
I thought immediately it's a win-win. So I applied and I got a job
which was amazing at the time for me.
I've always wanted to work in FinTech.
I wanted to work in a small company
because you get much more responsibilities, and I think
it's much more interesting. You can learn a lot from such an experience and that's what I did
during these last 11 months, I've learned so much more than I would have learned
in a big corporation and I think that people should go for it!
I've always been very passionate about helping SMEs and SMEs have always been
so traditionally underserved by finance and banking institutions so coming to
work at a FinTech meant that there'd be ways that I could use technology to help SMEs
get access to credit and I think Revolut in particular appealed to me because
they're very focused on results and achieving one goal and that really appealed to me.
I think my favourite part about working here is that
when I joined nine months ago it was fairly small. We were still in the
startup phase and it was a bunch of motivated people trying
to work on the best product possible and figuring it out and then we kind of
bloomed from here and it was a little bit like what you said, we were
always covered in the news which is super exciting. My parents were clipping,
like getting all the clippings from all the newspapers and
sending it to me and it's very encouraging to work for a company
where people genuinely like the product and it is constantly
talked about and also I love the people I work with, they're just like a genuine
fun bunch of people and a little bit quirky,
but I love my coworkers.
I think it really suits me. I think I like that
we really are one big team and everyone really is striving for the same
goal and I think as long as you convince that as long as you are a KPI goal driven person
and you're willing to put your all into achieving it I think there's a place for you here
regardless of whether you're a man, you're women
or where you're from, that's all irrelevant.
I think that inevitably, because both the
finance and the technology industries have large gender biases there's inevitably
going to be a disparity in FinTech, but I think the real benefit that fintechs have
is that they're very new institutions and they've got a clean slate
and they can do things right from the beginning and really make steps
early on to alleviate any gender bias there might be.
For Revolut, we're choosing the right people
and it doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman
we're choosing the A-players and we're choosing the best people.
I think the real issue is how do we attract the best and most diverse talents
and we're competing with other big tech companies for these best talents
and now that I'm sitting on the people ops side of things
I'm helping the recruiting effort I could see that the talent pool
that we used to work with was not necessarily the most diverse but now
that we got this huge funding round it kind of put us on the map and so we are
able to attract way more applicants which is going to help us scale and
make sure that we have the best and most diverse people.
Yeah, absolutely! One thing I love about Revolut is there's always learning and development
opportunities and sort of want to take everything that comes my way.
I think any learning opportunity is good to take, whichever point in your career you're at
and I there are definitely a lot of new languages that I would personally want
to learn and also, I think it would promote leadership and development
within our company, and that's always good to have.
I think definitely go for it! I think there are so many great fintechs out there
you can definitely find one that suits you. Just be open to all the
learning and development opportunities and definitely connect with people that
can give you mentorship and constructive advice because it'll really have to develop your career.
I think that most big tech companies are
actually now realizing this bias and are looking into ways to kind of bridge that
gap and so they promote a lot of organizations for women who are
interested in the field so it's definitely a great time to join
there are a lot of meetups that you can join or find mentorship opportunities
anything that, if you're interested, will help you can I get exposure to the
industry and make you join.
Go and get it!